The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Telefonica Brasil S.A., ADR (NYSE: VIV)

Telefonica Brasil S.A., ADR (NYSE:VIV) currently has a daily average trading volume of 952.19K but it saw 871857 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 14.83B USD, the company’s current market price of $9.21 came falling about -1.18 while comparing to the previous closing price of $9.32. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $10.82 and as low as $7.47.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Telefonica Brasil S.A., ADR (VIV) gives us an average price of $8.88, while its current price level is -14.90% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 23.38% 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 $8.33 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $8.91. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.74% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.89%. 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 65.81 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, VIV’s stock price is moving 1.88% up while it is 14.27% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 21.99% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -10.18%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in March, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 3.52. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $14.53B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $56.4B and seeing the company making $59.29B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $14.53B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Telefonica Brasil S.A., ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 1.63B with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 5.33% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 6.88% and return on equity (ROE) at 7.84%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 14.62 while having a 12.91 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.75. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.19 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.40. Its return on asset (ROA) is 4.45% on average.