YPF Sociedad Anónima (YPF) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

YPF Sociedad Anónima, an energy company, engages in the oil and gas upstream and downstream activities in Argentina. Its upstream operations include the exploration, exploitation, and production of crude oil, and natural gas. The company's downstream operations include petrochemical production and crude oil refining; transportation and distribution refined and petrochemical products; commercialization of crude oil, petrochemical products, and specialties. Its gas and power operations include transportation, commercialization, and distribution of natural gas; operation of regasification terminals; conditioning, processing, and separation of natural gas; and power generation. The company had interests in oil and gas fields. It also had a retail distribution network and retail service stations. In addition, the company owns and operates refineries, as well as maintains terminal facilities Argentine ports. Further, it participates in power generation plants; offers diesel, fertilizers, lubricants, phytosanitary products, and ensiling bags; and supplies diesel, gasoline, fuel oil, coal, asphalts, paraffin, and sulfur, CO2, decanted oil, and aromatic extract. The company was incorporated in 1977 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $40.41 to $42.70
• 50-Day Range: $24.30 to $44.88
• 52-Week Range: $14.53 to $45.97
• Volume: 1.61 million shs
• Average Volume: 2.21 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $16.53 billion
• P/E Ratio: 21.22
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: $34.23
• Consensus Rating: Hold

YPF Sociedad Anónima Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

YPF Sociedad Anónima scored higher than 45% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 191st out of 272 stocks in the oils/energy sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 1.1 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

YPF Sociedad Anónima has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.29, and is based on 2 buy ratings, 5 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

YPF Sociedad Anónima has only been the subject of 4 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: -34.64%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for YPF Sociedad Anónima are expected to decrease by -34.64% in the coming year, from $7.68 to $5.02 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of YPF Sociedad Anónima is 21.22, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 113.29.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of YPF Sociedad Anónima is 21.22, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Oils/Energy sector average P/E ratio of about 12.15.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

YPF Sociedad Anónima has a PEG Ratio of 0.13. PEG Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

YPF Sociedad Anónima has a P/B Ratio of 1.83. P/B Ratios below 3 indicates that a company is reasonably valued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 5.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Healthy

Percentage of Shares Shorted

1.21% of the float of YPF Sociedad Anónima has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

YPF Sociedad Anónima has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 2.1, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in YPF Sociedad Anónima has recently decreased by 36.12%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

YPF Sociedad Anónima does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

YPF Sociedad Anónima does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of YPF Sociedad Anónima is 6.97%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

Dividend Sustainability

Based on earnings estimates, YPF Sociedad Anónima will have a dividend payout ratio of 2.75% next year. This indicates that YPF Sociedad Anónima will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.

Sustainability and ESG

• Score: N/A
• Environmental Score: N/A

Percentage of Shares Shorted

1.21% of the float of YPF Sociedad Anónima has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

YPF Sociedad Anónima has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 2.1, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in YPF Sociedad Anónima has recently decreased by 36.12%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.

News and Social Media

• Score: 3.8 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.82

News Sentiment

YPF Sociedad Anónima has a news sentiment score of 0.82. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.65 average news sentiment score of Oils/Energy companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 8 news articles for YPF Sociedad Anónima this week, compared to 3 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

12 people have searched for YPF on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 300% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

12 people have added YPF Sociedad Anónima to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 71% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Insider Trading: N/A

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, YPF Sociedad Anónima insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

Percentage Held by Institutions

Only 10.08% of the stock of YPF Sociedad Anónima is held by institutions.

YPF Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have YPF shares performed this year?

YPF Sociedad Anónima's stock was trading at $17.19 at the start of the year. Since then, YPF shares have increased by 144.4% and is now trading at $42.02.
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How were YPF Sociedad Anónima's earnings last quarter?

YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, May, 11th. The oil and gas exploration company reported ($0.06) EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.12) by $0.06. The oil and gas exploration company earned $2.65 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.80 billion. YPF Sociedad Anónima had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 32.76% and a net margin of 4.15%.

Who are YPF Sociedad Anónima's major shareholders?

YPF Sociedad Anónima's top institutional investors include TT International Asset Management LTD (1.30%), Helikon Investments Ltd (0.91%), Citigroup Inc. (0.29%) and Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.08%).

How do I buy shares of YPF Sociedad Anónima?

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What other stocks do shareholders of YPF Sociedad Anónima own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that YPF Sociedad Anónima investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Broadcom (AVGO), Meta Platforms (META), Invesco QQQ (QQQ), Arista Networks (ANET), Adobe (ADBE) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 5/11/2021
• Today: 12/21/2024
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2024

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NYSE
• Sector: Oils/Energy
• Industry: Petroleum refining
• Sub-Industry: N/A
• Current Symbol: NYSE:YPF
• CUSIP: N/A
• CIK: 904851
• Web: www.ypf.com
• Phone: 541154411276
• Fax: 54-11-5441-3726
• Employees: 25,711
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Stock Price Target: $34.23
• High Stock Price Target: $55.00
• Low Stock Price Target: $22.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: -18.5%
• Consensus Rating: Hold
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.29
• Research Coverage: 7 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year): $1.98
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 21.22
• Forward P/E Ratio: 5.47
• P/E Growth: 0.13
• Net Income: $-1,312,000,000.00
• Net Margins: 4.15%
• Pretax Margin: 3.68%
• Return on Equity: 32.76%
• Return on Assets: 12.67%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.59
• Current Ratio: 0.88
• Quick Ratio: 0.68

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $18.48 billion
• Price / Sales: 0.89
• Cash Flow: $12.62 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 3.33
• Book Value: $23.01 per share
• Price / Book: 1.83

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 393,313,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: $16.53 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.94