Should You Sell YPF ADR (YPF) And Go Away This Year?

YPF ADR (NYSE:YPF) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.98M but it saw 5956042 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 11.64B USD, the company’s current market price of $29.59 came rising about 8.95 while comparing to the previous closing price of $27.16. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $47.43 and as low as $16.18. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $24.66 while lowest mark touched by it was $29.94.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of YPF ADR (YPF) gives us an average price of $34.31, while its current price level is -37.61% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 82.88% 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 $35.54 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $30.42. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 12.45% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 6.40%. 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 36.26 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

BofA Securities upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Neutral” on December 09, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $31-$55. UBS issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $30 and $38.

Over the week, YPF’s stock price is moving -16.65% down while it is -7.21% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -30.39% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 36.30%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Mar-17, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 5.1. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $4.98T as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $20.94T and seeing the company making $19.54T in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $4.76T for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, YPF ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 393.26M with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 46.61% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 12.21% and return on equity (ROE) at 22.65%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 4.93 while having a 5.08 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.90. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.98 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.60. Its return on asset (ROA) is 8.57% on average.