With 15.39 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 36.7 million shares. During the session, the Beverages – Brewers company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $1.89 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $1.85. The 52-week range on ABEV shows that it touched its highest point at $2.67 and its lowest point at $1.76 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $3.00. With its current market cap of 29.10 billion, ABEV has annualized dividend of $0.11 while the current yield stands at 5.86%. ABEV paid its most recent dividend on 1703203200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1734912000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.07.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Three-month performance dropped to -17.26% while six-month performance fell -8.43%. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ABEV yields 0.17 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.17. For the next quarter, that number is 0.05. This implies an EPS growth rate of -17.54% for this year and 8.08% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -2.59% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -0.73%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 15.73 billion ABEV shares are outstanding with a float of 15.73 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 19.27 million, which was 23.0 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Carlos Eduardo Klutzenschell Lisboa as the firm’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Lucas Machado Lira serves as its Member of Board of Executive Officers, Chief Financial & IR and Shared Services Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.32575 of ABEV’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, ABEV reported revenue of $22096700000.0 and operating income of $5300100000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $7304500000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.22.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for ABEV since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 ABEV analysts setting a high price target of 5.0 and a low target of 1.85, the average target price over the next 12 months is 2.844.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.00743 being high and $0.90138 being low. For ABEV, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.95441. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.04 and the low estimate is $0.04. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.04.
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