Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ADR (ITUB): Investing In A Time Of Crisis

Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ADR (NYSE:ITUB) currently has a daily average trading volume of 26.95M but it saw 16117916 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 32.76B USD, the company’s current market price of $5.62 came falling about -1.06 while comparing to the previous closing price of $5.68. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $6.11 and as low as $4.37. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $5.59 while lowest mark touched by it was $5.69.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ADR (ITUB) gives us an average price of $5.35, while its current price level is -8.05% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 28.56% 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 $5.25 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $5.43. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.93% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 2.16%. 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 63.27 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, ITUB’s stock price is moving -1.92% down while it is 8.32% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 26.05% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -4.64%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-05, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.17 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.73. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $44.53B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $178.52B and seeing the company making $193.76B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $43.57B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 5.83B with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 21.87% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 8.79% and return on equity (ROE) at 20.84%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 8.79 while having a 7.13 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.66. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.95 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.52. Its return on asset (ROA) is 1.54% on average.