AngloGold Ashanti Plc (AU) saw downtrend of -1.50% in the recent trading with $73.45 being its most recent. The current price level -5.59% lower than the highest price of $77.80 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 227.17% higher than the lowest price of $22.45 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on AU appeared in (Zacks) under the title “AngloGold Ashanti (AU) Dips More Than Broader Market: What You Should Know”.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 15 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.00 for the stock.
AngloGold Ashanti Plc Earnings – What Happened With AU
Coming around sales and income figures on AU Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor. AngloGold Ashanti Plc (AU) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of -30.86% for net revenue.
AU – AngloGold Ashanti Plc Stock Earnings Estimates
The perspective of AngloGold Ashanti Plc (NYSE:AU)’s current quarter earnings identifies that analysts are in consensus over the estimate of 0.81 for stock’s EPS in the current quarter. AngloGold Ashanti Plc (AU) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of -30.86% for net revenue. Company’s EPS for the last quarter was 0.56.
AngloGold Ashanti Plc – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 503.53 million. AU does have institutional investors; and they hold 67.50% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP was the top most holder in AngloGold Ashanti Plc (NYSE:AU) with an ownership of 22.84 million shares of the company or 5.4166 of the stake worth $573.97 million. The filing also reveals VANGUARD GROUP INC as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 4.0044 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $424.33 million for having 16.89 million shares in hand.
BLACKROCK INC. also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 3.7009 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 685.0 institutions which have possession in AU’s shares.
Key Metrics for AU
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, AngloGold Ashanti Plc has a debt to equity ratio of 0.31.
