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 Analyst Weigh In

A number of research firms have issued reports on YPF. 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 report on Thursday, June 30th. StockNews.com lowered shares of YPF Sociedad Anónima from a "strong-buy" rating to a "buy" rating in a report on Wednesday.

YPF Sociedad Anónima Price Performance

Shares of YPF opened at $3.75 on Friday. YPF Sociedad Anónima has a twelve month low of $2.82 and a twelve month high of $5.86. The firm's fifty day simple moving average is $3.53 and its 200-day simple moving average is $4.14. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.47 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 5.86 and a beta of 1.83. The company has a current ratio of 1.25, a quick ratio of 0.86 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81.

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