Does LATAM Airlines Group S.A. ADR (LTM) offer a good opportunity for investors?

With 0.15 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.18 million shares. During the session, the Airlines company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $27.41 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $27.135. The 52-week range on LTM shows that it touched its highest point at $1250.00 and its lowest point at $21.83 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $39.86. Beta for the stock currently stands at 3.53.

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 LTM was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.21%, but this was down by -4.88% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 2.98% while six-month performance fell -97.10%. The stock lost -97.48% in the past year, while it has lost -1.16% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LTM yields 2.62 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.41. EPS is expected to grow by 14.17% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -49.17%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 302.22 million LTM shares are outstanding with a float of 260.42 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 0.23 million, which was 8.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Roberto Alvo Milosawlewitsch as the firm’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Ramiro Diego Alfonsin Balza serves as its Chief Financial Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.23593001 of LTM’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, LTM reported revenue of $3245222000.0 and operating income of $444406000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $485670000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.996.

Analysts Ratings:

In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With LTM analysts setting a high price target of 50.0 and a low target of 26.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 38.83333. Based on these targets, LTM could surge 83.42% to reach the target high and fall by -2.79% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 42.46% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.68999 being high and $2.30097 being low. For LTM, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.49962. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.29 and the low estimate is $1.29. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.29.