BBVA Argentina ADR (NYSE: BBAR) Plunges -0.81% And Its 5.74% Stock Volatility Is Bewildering

BBVA Argentina ADR (NYSE:BBAR) does about 763.32K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1006902 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 3.52B USD. Its current market price is $17.24, marking a decrease of -0.81% compared to the previous close of $17.38. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $18.24 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $3.90.

BBVA Argentina ADR (BBAR) has a 20-day trading average at $16.34 and the current price is -5.46% off the 52-week high compared with 341.89% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $13.67 and its 200-day simple moving average is $10.40. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 5.74%, which increases to 6.36% 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 65.28 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $16.50, suggesting that the stock has a potential downside of -4.48% over the period.

The current price level is 5.53%, 26.11%, and 76.97% 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 4.48% over the week and 25.11% over the past month. Its price is 276.49% year-to-date and 273.75% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 9/30/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of 0.29 above consensus estimates by 0.2. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.51 and 3.05 for whole year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to shrink -4.48 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 17.33% and return on equity of 20.06%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 7.67 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 17.62. The beta has a value of 1.47. Price to book ratio is 1.45 and price to sales ratio is 0.44.