ACR Alpine Capital Research LLC recently announced the acquisition of new stake in Vodafone Group plc ADR (NASDAQ:VOD). The institutional investor has increased its shareholding in the Communication Services company by 1.38% to 18.9 million shares with purchase of 0.26 million shares. This fresh investment now brings its stake to 0.70% valued currently at $164.39 million. In addition, ICICI Prudential Asset Management raised its holdings by 1.4 million to 9.27 million shares. And Arrowstreet Capital LP has lifted its position by 295.60% or 6.43 million shares – to 8.61 million shares.
Currently, there are 2.71B common shares owned by the public and among those 2.71B shares have been available to trade.
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The top 3 mutual fund holders in Vodafone Group plc ADR are T Rowe Price Overseas Stock Fund, Vanguard Windsor Funds – Vanguard, and ICICI Prudential Value Discovery. T Rowe Price Overseas Stock Fund owns 9.35 million shares of the company’s stock, all valued at over $81.37 million. The company sold 17500.0 shares recently to bring their total holdings to about 0.35% of the shares outstanding. ICICI Prudential Value Discovery bought 1.4 million shares to bring its total holdings to over 8.77 million shares at a value of $76.32 million. ICICI Prudential Value Discovery now owns shares totaling to 0.32% of the shares outstanding.
However, the script later moved the day high at 8.90, up 1.14%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 3.02% and -4.10% over the past three months. VOD shares are trading 2.07% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -22.45% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $8.10 and touched a high of $12.52 over the same period. VOD has an average intraday trading volume of 6.72 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 1.39%, -0.06%, and -7.71% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Vodafone Group plc ADR (NASDAQ: VOD) shares accounts for 7.98% of the company’s 2.71B shares outstanding. Mutual fund holders own 2.23%, while other institutional holders and individual stakeholders account for 5.77% and — respectively.
It has a market capitalization of $24.05B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.70. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 2.25, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $3.95. The company has a PEG of 0.11 and a Quick Ratio of 0.86 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 1.08. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.53% over the week and 1.34% over the month.
The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $0 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $0. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -37.59%, and 20.54% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 20.90% over the next five years, compared to 35.92% over the past 5-year period.
