Perhaps timely catching Loma Negra Compania Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anonima ADR (LOMA) would be a good idea

With 1.3 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.55 million shares. During the session, the Building Materials company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $11.07 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $10.8199. The 52-week range on LOMA shows that it touched its highest point at $11.06 and its lowest point at $5.70 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $9.07. LOMA paid its most recent dividend on 1688083200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1688083200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.28.

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Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of LOMA was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 7.46%, but this was up by 35.35% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 55.98% while six-month performance rose 50.41%. The stock gained 84.34% in the past year, while it has gained 54.44% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LOMA yields 0.82 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.95. For the next quarter, that number is 0.38. This implies an EPS growth rate of 2963.42% for this year and 48.83% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 27.51% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 22.80%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 119.20 million LOMA shares are outstanding with a float of 119.20 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 0.53 million, which was 46.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Sergio Damian Faifman as the firm’s Vice-President of Board & CEO, Mr. Marcos Isabelino Gradin serves as its Chief Financial Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.19919 of LOMA’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, LOMA reported revenue of $180686000000.0 and operating income of $22384000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $76529000000.0 and diluted EPS was $179.348.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for LOMA since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With LOMA analysts setting a high price target of 11.5 and a low target of 7.8, the average target price over the next 12 months is 9.075. Based on these targets, LOMA could surge 5.02% to reach the target high and fall by -28.77% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -17.12% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $582.81103 being high and $455.07161 being low. For LOMA, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $518.94131.