YPF ADR (NYSE:YPF) shares, rose in value, with the stock price down by -1.99% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $20.23.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $20.64. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.66 whereas the PE ratio was 8.82 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $21.16, and the low was $9.57. On the whole, YPF has fluctuated by 11.15% over the past month.
As a result, investors might want to see an improvement in the stock’s price before the company announces its earnings report. Analysts are projecting the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $0.67, which is expected to increase to $0.96 for fiscal year $3.25 and then to about $3.67 by fiscal year 2025. Data indicates that the EPS growth is expected to be 197.00% in 2025, while the next year’s EPS growth is forecast to be 12.90%.
Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at $4.45 billion, with a low estimate of $4.45 billion and a high estimate of $4.45 billion. According to the average forecast, sales growth in current quarter could jump up 4.50%, compared to the corresponding quarter of last year. Wall Street analysts also predicted that in 2025, the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach $16.79 billion, representing a decrease of -3.00% from the revenues reported in the last year’s results.
Revisions could be a useful indicator to get insight on short-term price movement; so for the company, there were 1 upward and no downward review(s) in last seven days. We see that YPF’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0, with the price of YPF currently trading nearly 5.89% and 12.88% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 61.61, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 3.07% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 3.61%. Furthermore, YPF ADR (YPF)’s beta value is 1.91, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.69.
A comparison of YPF ADR (YPF) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. YPF showed an intraday change of -1.99% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 73.65%%.
Data on historical trading for YPF ADR (NYSE:YPF) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 2.02 million and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 2.32 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 393.26 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.06% of YPF ADR’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 10.62% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 1.66 million shares as on Mar 15, 2024, resulting in a short ratio of 1.02. According to the data, the short interest in YPF ADR (YPF) stood at 0.72% of shares outstanding as of Mar 15, 2024; the number of short shares registered in Feb 15, 2024 reached 1.79 million. The stock has risen by 17.68% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the YPF stock heading into the next quarter.
