YPF Sociedad Anónima - YPF Stock Forecast, Price & News

YPF Sociedad Anónima, an energy company, engages in the oil and gas upstream and downstream activities in Argentina. The company's upstream operations include the exploration, development, and production of crude oil, natural gas, and NGLs. Its downstream operations include the refining, marketing, transportation, and distribution of oil, petroleum products, petroleum derivatives, petrochemicals, LPG, and bio-fuels, as well as in gas separation, natural gas distribution operations, and power generation. As of December 31, 2021, it had interests in 119 oil and gas fields; approximately 643 million barrels (mmbbl) of oil; and approximately 2,447 billion cubic feet (bcf) of gas. It also had a retail distribution network of 1,654 YPF-branded service stations; and 18 exploration permits. In addition, the company owns and operates three refineries with combined annual refining capacity of approximately 120 mmbbl; approximately 2,800 kilometers of crude oil pipelines with approximately 640,000 barrels of aggregate daily transportation capacity of refined products; and crude oil tankage of approximately 7 mmbbl, as well as maintains terminal facilities at five Argentine ports. Further, it participates in 21 power generation plants with an aggregate installed capacity of 3,091 megawatts; 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 founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

YPF Sociedad Anónima Price Performance

YPF opened at $3.91 on Thursday. The company has a quick ratio of 0.86, a current ratio of 1.25 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81. The stock has a market cap of $1.54 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 6.11 and a beta of 1.83. YPF Sociedad Anónima has a twelve month low of $2.82 and a twelve month high of $5.86. The company's 50-day moving average price is $3.50 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $4.13.

YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF - Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 11th. The oil and gas exploration company reported $0.64 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.18 by $0.46. The company had revenue of $3.64 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.58 billion. YPF Sociedad Anónima had a net margin of 1.76% and a return on equity of 3.90%. As a group, equities analysts expect that YPF Sociedad Anónima will post 2.73 earnings per share for the current year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research firms have weighed in on YPF. StockNews.com downgraded shares of YPF Sociedad Anónima from a "strong-buy" rating to a "buy" rating in a research note on Wednesday, August 3rd. UBS Group upgraded shares of YPF Sociedad Anónima from a "sell" rating to a "neutral" rating and set a $3.30 target price on the stock in a research note on Thursday, June 30th.