AU (AU) Stock

About AU

AU is led by CEO Alberto Calderon Phil, employs 12,634 people, headquartered in Greenwood Village, GB, publicly traded since 1998.

AU stock trades at $108.13 with a market capitalization of $54.69B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 14.95, price-to-book of 6.38, price-to-sales of 4.80. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $56.62 and $129.14, and currently trades 16.3% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 2.56%.

On profitability, AU generates a return on equity (ROE) of 45.77% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 42.90%, an operating margin of 45.14%, a net profit margin of 32.19%.

In its most recent fiscal year, AU reported annual revenue of $9.9B, net profit of $2.6B, revenue has compounded at 16.6% a year over the last five years, profit at 21.2% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.20 — a conservative balance sheet with little leverage risk, a current ratio of 2.87, total assets of $15.1B, $2.9B in cash and equivalents.

AU has an average daily trading volume of 2,955,451 shares, a beta of 0.70 (less volatile than the overall market).