Some Investing Thoughts On AngloGold Ashanti Plc (NYSE: AU)

AngloGold Ashanti Plc (AU) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $40.45, with 5.23 million shares of worth about $211.68 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 61.09% during that period and on May 15, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.45%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 503.53M shares, out of which, 502.56M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -3.39% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -7.71%. Year-to-date (YTD), AU shares are showing a performance of 75.26% which increased to 66.60% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $22.13 but also hit the highest price of $46.90 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for AngloGold Ashanti Plc shares is 3.24 million. The stock is currently trading -2.95% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 5.99% for SMA50 and it goes to 32.84% higher than SMA200.

AngloGold Ashanti Plc (NYSE: AU) currently have 503.53M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 67.64% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $20.37B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.47. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 17.36, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.33 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.74 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 3.23% while standing at 3.15% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 126.12% while it is estimated to increase by 3.47% 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 HSBC Securities on April 17, 2025 offering a Reduce rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $35 to it. Coverage by RBC Capital Mkts stated AngloGold Ashanti Plc (AU) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on December 03, 2024, suggesting a price target of $31 for the stock. Stock get a Sector underperform rating from Scotiabank on August 19, 2024.

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