In the last trading session, 24.57 million YPF ADR (NYSE:YPF) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.63. With the company’s per share price at $15.01 changed hands at $4.28 or 39.89% during last session, the market valuation stood at $5.90B. YPF’s last price was a discount, traded about -7.86% off its 52-week high of $16.19. The share price had its 52-week low at $6.79, which suggests the last value was 54.76% up since then. When we look at YPF ADR’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.59 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.84 million.

Analysts gave the YPF ADR (YPF) stock a consensus recommendation rating of an Underweight, calculated at a mean rating of 3.70. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 4 out of 10 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 4 recommended YPF as a Hold, 1 felt it is a Buy and 1 rated the stock as Underweight. YPF ADR’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be $0.83.

YPF ADR (NYSE:YPF) trade information

Instantly YPF was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 47.74%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The jump to weekly highs of 15.38 on Monday, 11/20/23 added 39.89% to the stock’s daily price. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 63.33%, with the 5-day performance at 47.74% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, YPF ADR (NYSE:YPF) is 22.13% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 2.16 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.08 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $13.90, meaning bulls need a downside of -7.99% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, YPF’s forecast low is $8.00 with $30.00 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -99.87% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 46.7% for it to hit the projected low.

YPF ADR (YPF) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the YPF ADR share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 38.98% over the past 6 months, a -29.20% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of -16.50%. Moreover, analysts have looked to lower expectations by upgrading its fiscal year 2023 revenue estimates. The rating firms predict current quarter revenue for YPF ADR will fall -30.30%, while the growth in revenue is estimated to hit -28.20% for the next quarter. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach -10.90% down from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 4 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of $4.28 billion. 2 analysts are of the opinion that YPF ADR’s revenue for the quarter ending Mar 2024 will be $4.49 billion. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was $4.64 billion and $4.26 billion respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -7.90%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 5.40%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 24.64%. The 2023 estimates are for YPF ADR earnings to decrease by -46.92%.

YPF Dividends

YPF ADR is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in December.

YPF ADR (NYSE:YPF)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.00% of YPF ADR shares while 50.11% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 50.11%. There are 50.11% institutions holding the YPF ADR stock share, with Helikon Investments Ltd the top institutional holder. As of Jun 29, 2023, the company held 0.25% of the shares, roughly 9.98 million YPF shares worth $148.58 million.

Citigroup Inc. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 0.08% or 3.15 million shares worth $46.89 million as of Jun 29, 2023.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Jun 29, 2023 were Causeway Emerging Markets Fund and SCM Tr-ICON Natural Resources & Infrastructure Fd. With 0.33 million shares estimated at $4.97 million under it, the former controlled 0.01% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, SCM Tr-ICON Natural Resources & Infrastructure Fd held about 0.01% of the shares, roughly 0.35 million shares worth around $5.21 million.