Agnico Eagle Mines Limited $AEM Shares Acquired by Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp boosted its holdings in shares of Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (NYSE:AEM) (TSE:AEM) by 35.1% during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 86,877 shares of the mining company’s stock after buying an additional 22,554 shares during the period. Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp’s holdings in Agnico Eagle Mines were worth $14,728,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the stock. R Squared Ltd purchased a new stake in shares of Agnico Eagle Mines during the fourth quarter worth approximately $259,000. Quadcap Wealth Management LLC increased its holdings in Agnico Eagle Mines by 6.2% in the fourth quarter. Quadcap Wealth Management LLC now owns 9,031 shares of the mining company’s stock valued at $1,531,000 after buying an additional 526 shares during the last quarter. Aprio Wealth Management LLC purchased a new stake in Agnico Eagle Mines during the 4th quarter worth about $200,000. D.A. Davidson & CO. increased its holdings in shares of Agnico Eagle Mines by 21.3% in the 4th quarter. D.A. Davidson & CO. now owns 32,868 shares of the mining company’s stock valued at $5,572,000 after acquiring an additional 5,777 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Pictet Asset Management Holding SA lifted its position in shares of Agnico Eagle Mines by 28.3% during the 4th quarter. Pictet Asset Management Holding SA now owns 360,920 shares of the mining company’s stock worth $61,295,000 after buying an additional 79,642 shares during the last quarter. 68.34% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Key Stories Impacting Agnico Eagle Mines

Here are the key news stories impacting Agnico Eagle Mines this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Q1 results — Company reported record quarterly operating margins, higher adjusted net income and revenue up ~66% year‑over‑year; management said production and costs tracked to plan. PR Newswire: Q1 2026 Results
• Positive Sentiment: Market/earnings headlines — Coverage emphasized profits more than doubled and the company beat several estimates on the headline metrics, supporting near-term investor sentiment. Yahoo Finance: Profit More Than Doubles
• Positive Sentiment: Growth catalysts — Expansion in Finland (Kolho JV exploration progress) and the Rupert Resources / Ikkari deal (C$2.9b) add scale and optionality in Europe’s largest undeveloped gold deposit, cited by analysts as a strategic growth driver. Yahoo Finance: Ikkari Deal Goldman/InsiderMonkey: Finland JV Progress
• Neutral Sentiment: EPS and estimates — Reported EPS was $3.40. Some outlets/consensus frameworks show this beating certain estimates (e.g., Zacks), while other consensus figures flagged a miss versus higher estimates, creating mixed headline interpretations. Zacks: Beats Estimates
• Negative Sentiment: Analyst revisions — Erste Group trimmed FY2026/FY2027 EPS forecasts slightly and maintains a Hold rating, which tempers upside from the print and could weigh on sentiment if further cuts follow. MarketBeat: Analyst Note (Erste Group)

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages recently weighed in on AEM. Raymond James Financial reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $225.00 price target on shares of Agnico Eagle Mines in a research report on Wednesday, January 14th. Citigroup raised their price target on Agnico Eagle Mines from $198.00 to $256.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 15th. TD raised their price objective on shares of Agnico Eagle Mines from $251.00 to $252.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, April 21st. Erste Group Bank downgraded Agnico Eagle Mines from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, March 24th. Finally, Scotiabank restated an “outperform” rating and set a $280.00 price objective on shares of Agnico Eagle Mines in a research report on Tuesday, February 17th. Ten investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and five have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $239.36.

Agnico Eagle Mines Trading Up 2.6%

NYSE:AEM opened at $188.29 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of $94.25 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 21.20, a PEG ratio of 9.26 and a beta of 0.71. Agnico Eagle Mines Limited has a 1 year low of $103.38 and a 1 year high of $255.24. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $211.77 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $191.76. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.01, a quick ratio of 1.33 and a current ratio of 2.02.

Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) (TSE:AEM) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April 30th. The mining company reported $3.40 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.19 by $0.21. Agnico Eagle Mines had a net margin of 37.47% and a return on equity of 18.09%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.53 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 66.1% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, sell-side analysts anticipate that Agnico Eagle Mines Limited will post 12.88 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Agnico Eagle Mines Increases Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, March 16th. Investors of record on Monday, March 2nd were paid a dividend of $0.45 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, March 2nd. This is an increase from Agnico Eagle Mines’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.40. This represents a $1.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.0%. Agnico Eagle Mines’s dividend payout ratio is 20.27%.

About Agnico Eagle Mines

Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (NYSE: AEM) is a Canadian-based senior gold producer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The company is principally engaged in the exploration, development, production and reclamation of gold-bearing properties. Agnico Eagle pursues both greenfield and brownfield exploration to expand its resource base and operates a portfolio of producing mines and development projects to generate long-life gold production.

Its core business activities span the full mining lifecycle: grassroots and advanced-stage exploration, prefeasibility and feasibility studies, mine construction, underground and open-pit mining, ore processing and metal recovery, and post-mining reclamation and closure.