YPF Sociedad Anonima (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: $32.19 to $33.40
• 50-Day Range: $30.50 to $36.99
• 52-Week Range: $16.18 to $47.43
• Volume: 1.01 million shs
• Average Volume: 1.39 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $13.01 billion
• P/E Ratio: 7.71
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: $43.92
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

YPF Sociedad Anonima Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

YPF Sociedad Anonima scored higher than 82% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 100th out of 267 stocks in the energy sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 3.3 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

YPF Sociedad Anonima has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.57, and is based on 4 buy ratings, 3 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

YPF Sociedad Anonima has only been the subject of 1 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: -33.38%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for YPF Sociedad Anonima are expected to decrease by -33.38% in the coming year, from $7.25 to $4.83 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of YPF Sociedad Anonima is 7.71, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 28.09.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of YPF Sociedad Anonima is 7.71, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Energy sector average P/E ratio of about 76.48.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

YPF Sociedad Anonima has a PEG Ratio of 0.47. PEG Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

YPF Sociedad Anonima has a P/B Ratio of 1.10. 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

1.63% of the float of YPF Sociedad Anonima has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

YPF Sociedad Anonima has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 3.4, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in YPF Sociedad Anonima has recently decreased by 69.11%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

YPF Sociedad Anonima does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

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

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of YPF Sociedad Anonima is 3.22%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

Dividend Sustainability

Based on earnings estimates, YPF Sociedad Anonima will have a dividend payout ratio of 2.86% next year. This indicates that YPF Sociedad Anonima will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.

Sustainability and ESG

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

Percentage of Shares Shorted

1.63% of the float of YPF Sociedad Anonima has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

YPF Sociedad Anonima has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 3.4, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in YPF Sociedad Anonima has recently decreased by 69.11%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.

News and Social Media

• Score: 3.9 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.95

News Sentiment

YPF Sociedad Anonima has a news sentiment score of 0.95. 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 0.73 average news sentiment score of Energy companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 7 news articles for YPF Sociedad Anonima this week, compared to 5 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

4 people have searched for YPF on MarketBeat in the last 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

1 people have added YPF Sociedad Anonima to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days.

Company Ownership

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

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

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

Percentage Held by Institutions

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

YPF Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have YPF shares performed this year?

YPF Sociedad Anonima's stock was trading at $42.51 at the beginning of the year. Since then, YPF stock has decreased by 22.2% and is now trading at $33.07.

How were YPF Sociedad Anonima's earnings last quarter?

YPF Sociedad Anonima (NYSE:YPF) released its earnings results on Friday, March, 7th. The oil and gas exploration company reported ($0.74) EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.51 by $1.25. The oil and gas exploration company had revenue of $4.75 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.86 billion. YPF Sociedad Anonima had a net margin of 8.62% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 16.78%.
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Who are YPF Sociedad Anonima's major shareholders?

YPF Sociedad Anonima's top institutional shareholders include Ping Capital Management Inc. (0.38%), William Blair Investment Management LLC (0.23%), Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. (0.04%) and Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.02%).

How do I buy shares of YPF Sociedad Anonima?

Shares of YPF 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.

What other stocks do shareholders of YPF Sociedad Anonima own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that YPF Sociedad Anonima 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: 3/07/2025
• Today: 8/01/2025
• Next Earnings (Estimated): 8/06/2025
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2025

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NYSE
• Sector: Energy
• Industry: OIL - INTL INTGD
• Sub-Industry: Petroleum And Natural Gas
• Current Symbol: NYSE:YPF
• CIK: 904851
• Web: www.ypf.com
• Phone: 541154411276
• Fax: 54-11-5441-3726
• Employees: 25,877
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for YPF Sociedad Anonima: $43.92
• High Price Target: $59.50
• Low Price Target: $30.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +32.8%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.57
• Research Coverage: 7 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $4.29
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 7.71
• Forward P/E Ratio: 4.56
• P/E Growth: 0.47
• Net Income: $2.35 billion
• Net Margins: 8.62%
• Pretax Margin: 3.38%
• Return on Equity: 16.78%
• Return on Assets: 6.76%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.66
• Current Ratio: 0.79
• Quick Ratio: 0.60

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $19.45 billion
• Price / Sales: 0.67
• Cash Flow: $12.92 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 2.56
• Book Value: $30.18 per share
• Price / Book: 1.10

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 393,313,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: $13.01 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.78