With 2.77 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 3.23 million shares. During the session, the Gold company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $27.58 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $26.87. The 52-week range on AU shows that it touched its highest point at $32.57 and its lowest point at $15.80 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $36.97. With its current market cap of 13.58 billion, AU has annualized dividend of $0.22 while the current yield stands at 0.82%. AU paid its most recent dividend on 1724976000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1724976000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.94.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of AU was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 7.11%, but this was up by 8.14% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -2.11% while six-month performance fell -6.81%. The stock gained 63.55% in the past year, while it has gained 16.85% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AU yields 0.08 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.14. For the next quarter, that number is 1.01. This implies an EPS growth rate of 2434.84% for this year and 61.34% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 503.51 million AU shares are outstanding with a float of 502.55 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 5.55 million, which was 109.99999999999999 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Alberto Calderon Zuleta B.A., BA Econ, Econ, J.D., Law, M Phil Econ, M.A. as the firm’s CEO & Executive Director, Ms. Gillian Doran FCCA serves as its Executive Director & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.75461996 of AU’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, AU reported revenue of $1491000000.0 and operating income of $403000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $470000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.53.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for AU since 15 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 11 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With AU analysts setting a high price target of 40.0 and a low target of 30.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 34.75. Based on these targets, AU could surge 48.31% to reach the target high and rise by 11.23% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 28.85% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.91504 being high and $2.13704 being low. For AU, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.53096. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.01 and the low estimate is $1.01. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.01.
