AngloGold Ashanti Limited (NYSE:AU) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.95M but it saw 4153762 shares traded on Thursday. With a market cap of 7.94B USD, stock’s current market price of $19.55 came falling about -0.76 while comparing to the previous closing price of $19.70. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $25.27 and as low as $11.94. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $19.56 while lowest mark touched by it was $18.99.
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Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of AngloGold Ashanti Limited (AU) gives us an average price of $17.76, while its current price level is -22.64% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 63.74% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $19.83 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $16.60. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 3.63% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 2.59%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 60.32 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
AngloGold Ashanti Limited (AU)’s stock is currently under the radar of 11 analysts who are in consensus at a 12-month price target range of between $16.00 and $24.70 for company’s shares. The average price target assigned by the average number of analysts to a stock is a way to gauge worth of any stock in next 52 weeks. And in assigning price target to a stock, some analysts adopt a bearish approach by advocating lower-than-average price target which in this case is $16.00 while some adopt bullish approach by assigning higher-than-average price target which reads the price to top $24.70. Average price target assigned by them is $20.87 which highlights an upside potential of 6.32% for the stock over that period. And to attain the median price target of $21.50 assigned by those analysts, stock has to add about 9.07% of value to its current levels.
Data by FactSet Research shows that 11 analysts have issued their ratings for the stock. 1 of them are in opinions that stock is a Sell, while 1 are advising it as an Overweight. 6 analysts suggested the investors to Buy the stock while 3 advised them to Hold. Recommendations by all of those brokerages imply a consensus rating of Overweight for the stock and that issued by Wall Street to investors is Moderate Buy.
JP Morgan upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Overweight” from “Neutral” on March 07, 2022 while assigning a price target range of $22.20-$24.20. BMO Capital Markets also issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $30 and $27.
Over the week, AU’s stock price is moving 15.89% up while it is -1.16% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 0.67% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -17.99%.
The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company was for quarter ended 6/29/2021, when its quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of $0.39 beaten by the consensus estimate of $0.9 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in 05/12/2023, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of $0 while estimate for next year EPS is $0.
Currently, AngloGold Ashanti Limited’s total number of outstanding shares is 419.99M with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 27.75% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 8.10% and return on equity (ROE) at 15.80%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 27.65. Stock’s beta reads 0.63. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.94 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.76. Its return on asset (ROA) is 8.00% on average.
A filing at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that VanEck Gold Miners ETF came shrinking its share ownership by 0.28% in the AngloGold Ashanti Limited (AU) increasing its stake to 5.21% with control over 60053.0 shares in the company. As per SEC documents, VanEck Gold Miners ETF shunned 21,819,671 of company’s common stock of worth $363.52 million as per recent closing price of the stock. VanEck Gold Miners ETF is not the only institutional holder which restructured its stake in AngloGold Ashanti Limited, as T Rowe Price Mid Cap Value Fund dumped 3,109,000 shares of worth $51.8 million to bring its holdings to a total of -3.05 million shares. In the most recent quarter, iShares V Plc – Gold Producers UC came rising its stake by 0.23% in the company and now holds 2.98 million or 0.71% of the company’s stake having worth of about 49.61 million.
