Westwood Global Investments LLC recently announced the acquisition of new stake in Ambev S.A. ADR (NYSE:ABEV). The institutional investor has increased its shareholding in the Consumer Defensive company by 3.11% to 107.18 million shares with purchase of 3.23 million shares. This fresh investment now brings its stake to 0.68% valued currently at $293.68 million. In addition, Goldman Sachs International raised its holdings by 49.87 million to 64.17 million shares. And Ruffer LLP has lifted its position by 1.98% or 0.89 million shares – to 45.82 million shares.
Currently, there are 15.74B common shares owned by the public and among those 15.74B shares have been available to trade.
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The top 3 mutual fund holders in Ambev S.A. ADR are First Eagle Global Fund, First Eagle Overseas Fund, and Harding Loevner International Equ. First Eagle Global Fund owns 149.62 million shares of the company’s stock, all valued at over $409.96 million. Harding Loevner International Equ sold -4.1 million shares to bring its total holdings to over 59.24 million shares at a value of $162.32 million. Harding Loevner International Equ now owns shares totaling to 0.38% of the shares outstanding.
However, the script later moved the day high at 2.9500, up 2.43%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 2.08% and 8.06% over the past three months. ABEV shares are trading 8.46% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 5.36% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $2.40 and touched a high of $3.23 over the same period. ABEV has an average intraday trading volume of 11.93 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 4.63%, 9.89%, and 4.45% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Ambev S.A. ADR (NYSE: ABEV) shares accounts for 8.70% of the company’s 15.74B shares outstanding. Mutual fund holders own 4.06%, while other institutional holders and individual stakeholders account for 4.64% and — respectively.
It has a market capitalization of $46.44B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.18. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 15.77, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.19. The company has a PEG of 3.28 and a Quick Ratio of 0.79 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.04. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.16% over the week and 1.92% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 4.74%, and 4.87% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 4.80% over the next five years, compared to 3.85% over the past 5-year period.
