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Afya (AFYA) Stock Price, News & Analysis

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$16.74 +0.48 (+2.95%)
(As of 11/22/2024 ET)

About Afya Stock (NASDAQ:AFYA)

Key Stats

Today's Range
$16.34
$16.91
50-Day Range
$16.00
$18.09
52-Week Range
$15.52
$22.48
Volume
86,288 shs
Average Volume
123,264 shs
Market Capitalization
$1.57 billion
P/E Ratio
13.50
Dividend Yield
N/A
Price Target
$21.13
Consensus Rating
Hold

Company Overview

Afya Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates as a medical education group in Brazil. The company operates through three segments: Undergrad, Continuing Education, and Digital Services. It offers educational products and services, including medical schools, medical residency preparatory courses, graduate courses, and other programs to lifelong medical learners enrolled across its distribution network, as well as to third-party medical schools. The company also provides digital health services, such as subscription-based mobile app and website portal that focuses on assisting health professionals and students with clinical decision-making through tools, such as medical calculators, charts, and updated content, as well as prescriptions, clinical scores, medical procedures and laboratory exams, and others. It offers health sciences courses, which comprise medicine, dentistry, nursing, radiology, psychology, pharmacy, physical education, physiotherapy, nutrition, and biomedicine; and degree programs and courses in other subjects and disciplines, including undergraduate and post graduate courses in business administration, accounting, law, civil engineering, industrial engineering, and pedagogy. In addition, the company provides medical postgraduate specialization programs; printed and digital content; and an online medical education platform and practical medical training services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Nova Lima, Brazil.

Afya Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

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74th Percentile Overall Score

AFYA MarketRank™: 

Afya scored higher than 74% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 108th out of 285 stocks in the consumer discretionary sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

  • Consensus Rating

    Afya has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.00, and is based on no buy ratings, 4 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

  • Amount of Analyst Coverage

    Afya has only been the subject of 1 research reports in the past 90 days.

  • Read more about Afya's stock forecast and price target.
  • Earnings Growth

    Earnings for Afya are expected to grow by 25.66% in the coming year, from $1.52 to $1.91 per share.

  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

    The P/E ratio of Afya is 13.50, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 119.65.

  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

    The P/E ratio of Afya is 13.50, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Consumer Discretionary sector average P/E ratio of about 19.03.

  • Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

    Afya has a PEG Ratio of 0.34. PEG Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued.

  • Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

    Afya has a P/B Ratio of 2.10. P/B Ratios below 3 indicates that a company is reasonably valued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

  • Read more about Afya's valuation and earnings.
  • Percentage of Shares Shorted

    12.30% of the float of Afya has been sold short.
  • Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

    Afya has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 7.1.
  • Change versus previous month

    Short interest in Afya has recently increased by 0.31%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing.
  • Dividend Yield

    Afya does not currently pay a dividend.

  • Dividend Growth

    Afya does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

  • Percentage of Shares Shorted

    12.30% of the float of Afya has been sold short.
  • Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

    Afya has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 7.1.
  • Change versus previous month

    Short interest in Afya has recently increased by 0.31%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing.
  • News Sentiment

    Afya has a news sentiment score of 0.53. 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 lower news sentiment than the 0.69 average news sentiment score of Consumer Discretionary companies.
  • News Coverage This Week

    MarketBeat has tracked 2 news articles for Afya this week, compared to 3 articles on an average week.
  • MarketBeat Follows

    1 people have added Afya to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days.
  • Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

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

  • Percentage Held by Insiders

    Only 0.80% of the stock of Afya is held by insiders.

  • Percentage Held by Institutions

    88.02% of the stock of Afya is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

  • Read more about Afya's insider trading history.
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AFYA Stock News Headlines

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AFYA Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

Afya's stock was trading at $21.93 at the beginning of the year. Since then, AFYA shares have decreased by 23.7% and is now trading at $16.74.
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Afya Limited (NASDAQ:AFYA) released its earnings results on Wednesday, May, 26th. The company reported $1.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.56 by $0.40. The business had revenue of $72.15 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $72.96 million. Afya had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 19.15% and a net margin of 18.42%.
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Afya (AFYA) raised $233 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, July 19th 2019. The company issued 13,700,000 shares at a price of $16.00-$18.00 per share. BofA Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, UBS Investment Bank, Itaú BBA, Morgan Stanley, BTG and Pactual XP Investments served as the underwriters for the IPO.

Afya's top institutional investors include FMR LLC (2.79%), Bamco Inc. NY (2.70%), Perpetual Ltd (0.48%) and State Street Corp (0.08%).

Shares of AFYA stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Afya investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Broadcom (AVGO), Meta Platforms (META), ServiceNow (NOW), Arista Networks (ANET), Adobe (ADBE) and CrowdStrike (CRWD).

Company Calendar

Last Earnings
5/26/2021
Today
11/24/2024
Next Earnings (Confirmed)
12/31/2024
Fiscal Year End
12/31/2024

Industry, Sector and Symbol

Industry
Educational services
Sub-Industry
Personal Services
Current Symbol
NASDAQ:AFYA
Fax
N/A
Employees
9,680
Year Founded
N/A

Price Target and Rating

Average Stock Price Target
$21.13
High Stock Price Target
$23.00
Low Stock Price Target
$19.00
Potential Upside/Downside
+26.2%
Consensus Rating
Hold
Rating Score (0-4)
2.00
Research Coverage
4 Analysts

Profitability

Net Income
$77.38 million
Pretax Margin
19.38%

Debt

Sales & Book Value

Annual Sales
$3.19 billion
Cash Flow
$1.83 per share
Book Value
$7.99 per share

Miscellaneous

Free Float
92,973,000
Market Cap
$1.57 billion
Optionable
Optionable
Beta
0.91
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This page (NASDAQ:AFYA) was last updated on 11/24/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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