Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo. ADR (SBS): Choosing The Technical Investor Route

Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo. ADR (NYSE:SBS) does about 1.38M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1782521 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 10.77B USD. Its current market price is $15.76, marking a decrease of -0.88% compared to the previous close of $15.90. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $18.36 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $11.27. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $24.5 and a low of $24.5.

Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo. ADR (SBS) has a 20-day trading average at $16.69 and the current price is -14.16% off the 52-week high compared with 39.86% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $17.00 and its 200-day simple moving average is $15.78. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 1.53%, which increases to 1.58% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 30.70 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $22.23, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 29.1% over the period. The median price target is 35.67% away from the current levels at $24.5.

The current price level is -5.58%, -7.29%, and 0.57% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the SBS price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo. ADR (SBS) stock is down -2.60% over the week and -6.08% over the past month. Its price is 5.24% year-to-date and 30.73% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 6/30/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of 0.32 below consensus estimates by -0.02. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.28 and 1.09 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $1.18B, which analysts say will come at $4.47B for the current fiscal year and next year at $5.02B. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $1.17B.

Its 12-month price target is $24.5. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 29.1 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $24.5, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $24.5.

The company has a return on investment of 8.81% and return on equity of 13.88%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 13.28 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 13.74. The beta has a value of 1.16. Price to book ratio is 1.88 and price to sales ratio is 1.99.