AngloGold Ashanti Plc. (AU) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $17.13, with 3.33 million shares of worth about $57.06 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -23.49% during that period and On Wednesday, January 24 the price saw a gain of about 1.66%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 419.69M shares, out of which, 419.69M shares are available for trading.
VanEck Gold Miners ETF, Government Pension Fund – Global, and BlackRock Global Funds – World Go are the top 3 mutual funds which are holding stakes in AngloGold Ashanti Plc. VanEck Gold Miners ETF is currently holding 22.11 million shares of worth totaling $427.36 million. The company recently came selling -0.21 million shares which brought its stake up to 5.27% of the company’s outstanding shares. Government Pension Fund – Global bought 2.86 million shares, after which its hold over company’s outstanding shares expand to 1.97%, leaving 8.26 million shares with the mutual fund that have a worth of about $159.7 million. BlackRock Global Funds – World Go, after buying 5.86 million shares, have now control over 1.40% of the stake in the company. It holds 0.0 shares of worth $113.19 million.
However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 17.95, or with a gain of 1.66%. Stock saw a price change of 5.55% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -9.27%. Year-to-date (YTD), AU shares are showing a performance of -8.35% which decreased to -24.07% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $14.91 but also hit the highest price of $30.26 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for AngloGold Ashanti Plc. shares is 2.37 million. The stock is currently trading -2.34% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -3.38% for SMA50 and it goes to -15.79% lower than SMA200.
AngloGold Ashanti Plc. (NYSE: AU) currently have 419.69M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 25.72% of that. Holding of mutual funds in the company is about — while other institutional holders and individual stake holders have control over — and — of the stake respectively.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $7.19B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.89. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 184.99, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.09 in the same period. Its PEG reads 9.63 and has Quick Ratio of 1.24 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.52. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for AU, volatility over the week remained 2.88% while standing at 2.65% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that AngloGold Ashanti Plc. (AU) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0 and it is $0 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0 which is $0 at the higher side of the target for the same. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -3.00% while it is estimated to increase by 46.76% in next year.
