How Worried Should Investors Be About BBVA Argentina ADR (BBAR)

BBVA Argentina ADR (NYSE:BBAR) does about 700.44K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1422850 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 2.82B USD. Its current market price is $13.81, marking an increase of 2.68% compared to the previous close of $13.45. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $13.52 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $3.25.

BBVA Argentina ADR (BBAR) has a 20-day trading average at $11.69 and the current price is 2.18% off the 52-week high compared with 325.04% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $11.11 and its 200-day simple moving average is $9.11. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 5.83%, which decreases to 5.30% 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 72.36 to suggest the stock is overbought.

The consensus objective for the share price is $16.50, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 16.3% over the period.

The current price level is 18.15%, 24.25%, and 65.39% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the BBAR price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. BBVA Argentina ADR (BBAR) stock is up 18.44% over the week and 26.47% over the past month. Its price is 201.59% year-to-date and 287.86% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 3/31/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of 0.35 above consensus estimates by 0.15. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.6 and 1.88 for whole year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 16.3 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 204.24M with insiders holding 0.00% of the shares and institutional holders owning 4.79% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 16.29% and return on equity of 17.25%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 7.34 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 14.05. The beta has a value of 1.53. Price to book ratio is 1.24 and price to sales ratio is 0.32.