Dallas, Texas 11/26/2013 (Financialstrend) – Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX) will commence trading ex-dividend on 26th November 2013. The cash dividend payment of $0.05/ share is scheduled to be paid-out on 16th December 2013. Shareholders who have purchased Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX) stock before the ex-dividend date will be eligible for the cash-dividend payment. This represents an -75% drop from the same time a year ago. At the current stock -price of $16.38, the dividend-yield is 1.22%.
Monday’s trading
Over Monday’s trading session, Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX) rose by 0.06%. The shares opened at a price of $16.20, climbed to the intraday high of $16.68 and headed to a close of $16.39. Around 27.84 million shares were exchanged on Monday and an average-volume of 19.46 million shares were traded over a period of 30 days. The 52-week low of Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX) shares is $13.43 and the 52-week high is $36.08. The company has a market capitalization of $19.09 billion.
About the company
Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX) is involved in the production as well as sale of gold. It is also involved in other related activities, like exploration as well as mine development. Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX) is also engaged in copper production . This copper is primarily produced from the company’s mines that are located in Zaldivar & Lumwana mines.
Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX) holds some other interests, like the nickel development project that is in Africa. The company’s business is also organized into seven primary-operating segments: it has 4 regional gold businesses, One global copper-business unit. It also has one oil and gas business, and its capital projects group. Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX)’s producing gold-mines are focused in 3 regional business-units (RBU): North America & South America and Australia Pacific. Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX) Copper business-unit has producing copper mines that are located in Chile & Zambia.
