Should Investors Trust The Upside Potential In Vodafone Group plc ADR (VOD)?

Vodafone Group plc ADR (NASDAQ:VOD) currently has a daily average trading volume of 12.76M but it saw 12252896 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 24.22B USD, the company’s current market price of $9.73 came falling about -0.31 while comparing to the previous closing price of $9.76. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $10.39 and as low as $8.00. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $9.6901 while lowest mark touched by it was $9.795.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Vodafone Group plc ADR (VOD) gives us an average price of $9.11, while its current price level is -6.35% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 21.62% 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 $9.16 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $9.15. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.31% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 2.25%. 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 61.89 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, VOD’s stock price is moving 4.51% up while it is 4.96% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 14.61% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 11.71%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2003-Jul-30, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.35.

Currently, Vodafone Group plc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 2.49B with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 8.11% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 2.32% and return on equity (ROE) at 4.31%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 9.50 while having a 9.74 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.54. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.36 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.68. Its return on asset (ROA) is 1.80% on average.