AngloGold Ashanti Plc (NYSE: AU): To Buy Or Not To Buy, That Is The Question

AngloGold Ashanti Plc (AU) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $45.62, with 4.58 million shares of worth about $209.15 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 66.86% during that period and on April 16, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 4.08%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 503.51M shares, out of which, 502.55M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 25.26% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 33.43%. Year-to-date (YTD), AU shares are showing a performance of 97.66% which increased to 91.60% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $21.65 but also hit the highest price of $44.07 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for AngloGold Ashanti Plc shares is 2.81 million. The stock is currently trading 21.57% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 33.72% for SMA50 and it goes to 56.90% higher than SMA200.

AngloGold Ashanti Plc (NYSE: AU) currently have 503.51M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 65.20% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $22.97B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.44. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 19.58, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.33 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.90 and has Quick Ratio of 1.44 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.32. 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 4.12% while standing at 3.99% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 98.35% while it is estimated to increase by 6.02% in next year.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by RBC Capital Mkts on December 03, 2024 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $31 to it. On October 18, 2024, Investec Upgrade their recommendations, while on August 19, 2024, Scotiabank Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $30. Stock get a Reduce rating from HSBC Securities on April 19, 2024.

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