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.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several analysts recently commented on YPF shares. UBS Group upgraded YPF Sociedad Anónima from a "sell" rating to a "neutral" rating and set a $3.30 price target for the company in a research report on Thursday, June 30th. 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.

YPF Sociedad Anónima Price Performance

YPF Stock opened at $4.09 on Friday. YPF Sociedad Anónima has a 1 year low of $2.82 and a 1 year high of $5.86. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81, a current ratio of 1.25 and a quick ratio of 0.86. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.61 billion, a PE ratio of 6.39 and a beta of 1.83. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $3.49 and a 200-day simple moving average of $4.14.

YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF - Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, May 11th. The oil and gas exploration company reported $0.64 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.18 by $0.46. The business had revenue of $3.64 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.58 billion. YPF Sociedad Anónima had a return on equity of 3.90% and a net margin of 1.76%. Equities research analysts anticipate that YPF Sociedad Anónima will post 2.73 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.