Should Investors Trust The Upside Potential In HDFC Bank Ltd. ADR (HDB)?

HDFC Bank Ltd. ADR (NYSE:HDB) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.13M but it saw 1223269 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 184.45B USD, the company’s current market price of $72.28 came falling about -0.56 while comparing to the previous closing price of $72.69. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $75.37 and as low as $54.99. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $72.28 while lowest mark touched by it was $72.87.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of HDFC Bank Ltd. ADR (HDB) gives us an average price of $69.52, while its current price level is -4.10% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 31.44% 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 $65.07 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $62.92. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.40% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 2.62%. 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 63.72 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, HDB’s stock price is moving 0.39% up while it is 10.77% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 13.19% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 23.92%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2024-Jul-21, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.5 while estimate for next year EPS is 2.74. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $443.2B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $5.48T and seeing the company making $2.14T in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $429.82B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, HDFC Bank Ltd. ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 2.55B with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 14.18% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 6.19% and return on equity (ROE) at 14.51%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 22.06 while having a 18.08 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.62. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 3.14 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 3.31. Its return on asset (ROA) is 1.68% on average.