Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras S.A. ADR (EBR) expanding its growth trajectory ahead

With 1.27 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.51 million shares. During the session, the Utilities – Renewable company that operates in wider Utilities sector, reached to the highest price of $5.87 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $5.71. The 52-week range on EBR shows that it touched its highest point at $9.11 and its lowest point at $5.45 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $9.02. With its current market cap of 11.54 billion, EBR has annualized dividend of $0.08 while the current yield stands at 1.33%. EBR paid its most recent dividend on 1715126400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1735516800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.03.

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 EBR was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.53%, but this was down by -1.18% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -16.14% while six-month performance fell -18.36%. The stock lost -33.90% in the past year, while it has gained 2.62% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EBR yields 0.82 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.75. For the next quarter, that number is 0.11. This implies an EPS growth rate of 23.04% for this year and 49.19% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -12.78% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -31.61%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 5.59 million, which was 25.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Ivan de Souza Monteiro as the firm’s President, CEO, President of Executive Board & Director, Mr. Eduardo Haiama serves as its Executive VP of Finance & Investor Relations and Member of Executive Board.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.01291 of EBR’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, EBR reported revenue of $11042927000.0 and operating income of $4203902000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $9492495000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for EBR since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 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 EBR analysts setting a high price target of 10.8 and a low target of 7.7, the average target price over the next 12 months is 8.93333. Based on these targets, EBR could surge 83.99% to reach the target high and rise by 31.18% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 52.19% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.51539 being high and $2.47542 being low. For EBR, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.97797. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.14 and the low estimate is $0.14. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.14.