The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ADR (NYSE: ITUB)

Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ADR (NYSE:ITUB) currently has a daily average trading volume of 22.60M but it saw 39862256 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 26.07B USD, the company’s current market price of $5.38 came falling about -3.24 while comparing to the previous closing price of $5.56. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $7.01 and as low as $5.20. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $5.32 while lowest mark touched by it was $5.52.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ADR (ITUB) gives us an average price of $5.66, while its current price level is -23.31% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 3.45% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $5.99 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $6.28. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 3.00% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 2.05%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 38.86 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, ITUB’s stock price is moving -1.79% down while it is -9.88% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -19.73% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -12.24%.

Currently, Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 4.83B. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 7.93% and return on equity (ROE) at 20.51%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 7.03 while having a 6.68 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.93. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.42 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.39. Its return on asset (ROA) is 1.49% on average.