Azul S.A. ADR (NYSE: AZUL) Shocks Wall Street This Week With A 7.27% Stock Price Incline

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Azul S.A. ADR (NYSE:AZUL) has a beta value of 2.00 and has seen 1.0 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $272.31M, closed the recent trade at $2.43 per share which meant it gained $0.16 on the day or 7.27% during that session. The AZUL stock price is -259.26% off its 52-week high price of $8.73 and 35.39% above the 52-week low of $1.57. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 1.39 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 1.43 million shares.

The consensus among analysts is that Azul S.A. ADR (AZUL) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.57. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 3 out of 6 have rated it as a Hold, with 3 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is -0.06.

Azul S.A. ADR (NYSE:AZUL) trade information

Sporting 7.27% in the green today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the AZUL stock price touched $2.43 or saw a rise of 2.8%. Year-to-date, Azul S.A. ADR shares have moved 45.81%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -1.02%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Azul S.A. ADR (NYSE:AZUL) have changed 53.14%. Short interest in the company has seen 7.27 million shares shorted with days to cover at 4.39.

Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $4, which means that the shares’ value could jump 39.25% from the levels at last check today. The projected low price target is $4.0 while the price target rests at a high of $4.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -64.61% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -64.61% from the levels at last check today.

Azul S.A. ADR (AZUL) estimates and forecasts

Figures show that Azul S.A. ADR shares have outperformed across the wider relevant industry. The company’s shares have lost -43.11% over the past 6 months, with this year growth rate of 62.44%, compared to -8.30% for the industry. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 5.37%.

7 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 5.64B for the current quarter. 4 have an estimated revenue figure of 5.38B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 5.03B and 4.68B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 12.09% for the current quarter and 5.37% for the next.

If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -21.64% over the past 5 years.

AZUL Dividends

Azul S.A. ADR is expected to release its next earnings report in February this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.

Azul S.A. ADR (NYSE:AZUL)’s Major holders

The top two institutional holders are FRONTIER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT CO LLC with over 8.09 million shares worth more than $32.38 million. As of 2024-06-30, FRONTIER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT CO LLC held 6.9891% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is LONG FOCUS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC, with the holding of over 4.45 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $17.82 million and represent 3.8458% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are Advisers Investment Tr-JOHCM Emerging Markets Opportunities Fd and VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck Brazil Small-Cap ETF. As of Sep 30, 2024, the former fund manager holds about 0.98% shares in the company for having 1.09 shares of worth $2.65 million while later fund manager owns 55.2 shares of worth $0.13 million as of Nov 30, 2024, which makes it owner of about 0.05% of company’s outstanding stock.