AngloGold Ashanti Plc. (NYSE:AU) price is hovering lower on Tuesday, March 26, dropping -0.23% below its previous close.
A look at today’s price movement shows that the recent level at last check reads $21.34. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period read 229.91. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $30.26 and 52-week low of $14.91. The stock added 14.96% on its value in the past month.
AngloGold Ashanti Plc., which has a market valuation of $8.94 billion, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report Feb 22, 2024 – Mar 01, 2024. The company stock has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.23, while the dividend yield is 1.06%. It is understandable that investor optimism is growing ahead of the company’s current quarter results.
Revisions to the company’s EPS highlights a short term direction of a stock’s price movement, which in the last 7 days came up with no upward and no downward reviews. On the technical perspective front, indicators give AU a short term outlook of 100% Buy on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 100% Buy, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 50% Buy.
If we dive deeper into the stock’s performance we see the positive picture represented by the PEG ratio, currently standing at 11.97. The overview shows that AU’s price is at present 0.90% off the SMA20 and 12.83% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 56.43, with weekly volatility standing at 4.31%. The indicator jumps to 3.40% when calculated based on the past 30 days. AngloGold Ashanti Plc. (NYSE:AU)’s beta value is holding at 0.91, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.85.
An analysis of the AngloGold Ashanti Plc. (NYSE:AU) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 1.94 million. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 2.46 million.
Current records show that the company has 419.69M in outstanding shares. The percentage share held by institutions stands at 29.79%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Feb 29, 2024, stood at 6.6 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 3.73. From this we can glean that short interest is 1.57% of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in February fall slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 7.52 million. But the 13.91% upside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of today’s value, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.
