Helikon Investments Ltd. has recently announced that it has increased stake in YPF ADR (NYSE:YPF) by 18.49%. After grabbing 11.82 million shares, the institutional investor is now in possession of 1.85 million shares of the Energy Company. The new investment brought the stake of investor firm to 3.01% having worth around $196.39 million. Moreover, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. increased its share by 1.6 million to have a control over 3.24 million shares. And TT International Asset Management raised its holdings to 0.28 million shares by acquiring 3.13 million shares or 0.80% of the stake.
YPF ADR (YPF) concluded trading on 12/27/23 at a closing price of $17.24, with 3.18 million shares of worth about $54.78 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 16.72% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a loss of about -1.32%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 393.26M shares, out of which, 393.03M shares are available for trading.
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A deeper look into what the analysts at Wall Street are thinking about the price target of this stock provides us with the following: 10 analysts are covering the YPF stock and their offered price forecasts bring an average price target of $7970.89. Over the next 12 months, analysts forecasted that the stock’s price could jump as high as $24095.25 and could fall to a lowest price of $2800.33. The stock’s current price level is -5.83% below of average price target set by the analysts, while a dip to estimated low would result in gain of 99.38% for the stock. However, touching the estimated high of $24095.25 would mean a gain of 99.93% for the stock.
BlackRock Emerging Markets Fund I, Lumyna – MW TOPS UCITS Fund, and Redwheel Next Generation Emerging are the top 3 mutual funds which are holding stakes in YPF ADR BlackRock Emerging Markets Fund I is currently holding 0.97 million shares of worth totaling $16.07 million. The company recently came selling -0.59 million shares which brought its stake up to 0.25% of the company’s outstanding shares. Lumyna – MW TOPS UCITS Fund sold 17036.0 shares, after which its hold over company’s outstanding shares shrunk to 0.14%, leaving 0.56 million shares with the mutual fund that have a worth of about $9.28 million. Redwheel Next Generation Emerging, after buying 0.46 million shares, have now control over 0.12% of the stake in the company. It holds 0.46 million shares of worth $7.71 million.
YPF ADR (NYSE: YPF) started trading at $17.40, below -$0.07 from concluding price of the previous day. Stock saw a price change of -0.46% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -0.12%. Year-to-date (YTD), YPF shares are showing a performance of 87.60% which increased to 89.66% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $8.50 but also hit the highest price of $18.82 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for YPF ADR shares is 3.09 million. The stock is currently trading 1.03% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 23.79% for SMA50 and it goes to 32.19% higher than SMA200.
Helikon Investments Ltd. acquired 11.82 million shares of YPF ADR having value of about $196.39 million. Data submitted at the U.S SEC by Helikon Investments Ltd. revealed that the firm now holds 1.85 million shares in the company valued at close to $31809610.2, or have control over 18.49% stake in the company. YPF ADR (NYSE: YPF) currently have 393.26M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 10.82% of that. Holding of mutual funds in the company is about 1.28% while other institutional holders and individual stake holders have control over 9.54% and — of the stake respectively.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $6.78B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.92. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 7.51, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.29 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 0.60 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.79. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for YPF, volatility over the week remained 5.02% while standing at 4.77% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that YPF ADR (YPF) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $1.22 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.78 and it is $3.74 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.18 which is $3.76 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $1.19 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -46.63% while it is estimated to increase by 3.02% in next year.
Analysts at 10 brokerage firms have issued recommendations for the YPF ADR (YPF)’s stock and average of those rates the stock at a “Hold” and assign it a score of 3.30. Out of those 10 Wall Street analysts, 1 recommended a “Buy” rating, while 6 were in favor recommending the stock as a “Hold” and 2 analyst recommended the stock as “Sell”.
