Is Ecopetrol SA ADR’s 18.01% Rise This Year Is A Better Investing Opportunity?

In recent trading session, Ecopetrol SA ADR (NYSE:EC) saw 1.11 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.95. Company’s recent per share price level of $9.35 trading at $0.02 or 0.18% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $19.21B. That most recent trading price of EC’s stock is at a discount of -21.07% from its 52-week high price of $11.32 and is indicating a premium of 22.89% from its 52-week low price of $7.21. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 2.99 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 2.70 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Ecopetrol SA ADR (EC), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 3.50. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 1 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 1 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.

Ecopetrol SA ADR (NYSE:EC) trade information

Upright in the green today for gaining 0.18%, in the last five days EC remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Friday, 06/20/25 when the stock touched $9.35 price level, adding 5.94% to its value on the day. Ecopetrol SA ADR’s shares saw a change of -25.75% in year-to-date performance and have moved -3.94% in past 5-day. Ecopetrol SA ADR (NYSE:EC) showed a performance of 7.43% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 15.6 million shares which calculate 7.76 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 10.2 to the stock, which implies a rise of 8.33% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 6.8 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 12.5. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 27.27% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 27.27% for stock’s current value.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -1.92% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -10.49% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of -5.74%.

EC Dividends

Ecopetrol SA ADR is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-May-15 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 17.75%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.66 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 13.39%.

Ecopetrol SA ADR (NYSE:EC)’s Major holders

Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 1.16% institutions for Ecopetrol SA ADR that are currently holding shares of the company. GQG PARTNERS LLC is the top institutional holder at EC for having 12.32 million shares of worth $137.88 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 0.03 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 3.07 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 0.0075 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $34.3 million.

On the other hand, VANGUARD Intl Eqy. INDEX Fd.S-Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fd and iShares Trust-iShares Latin America 40 ETF are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Jan 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 882.13 shares of worth $8.24 million or 0.04% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 874.08 shares on Apr 30, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $8.17 million in the company or a holder of 0.04% of company’s stock.

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