StockNews.com Lowers YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF) to Hold

StockNews.com cut shares of YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF) from a buy rating to a hold rating in a report released on Tuesday.

Several other brokerages also recently issued reports on YPF. UBS Group raised shares of YPF Sociedad Anónima from a neutral rating to a buy rating and increased their price objective for the stock from $18.00 to $27.00 in a research report on Thursday, February 22nd. Citigroup raised YPF Sociedad Anónima from a neutral rating to a buy rating and set a $20.00 price target on the stock in a research note on Thursday, January 25th. Finally, Morgan Stanley upgraded YPF Sociedad Anónima from an underweight rating to an equal weight rating and boosted their price target for the company from $10.50 to $22.00 in a report on Thursday, March 21st. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and two have given a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, YPF Sociedad Anónima currently has a consensus rating of Hold and an average price target of $19.43.

YPF Sociedad Anónima Stock Up 0.2 %

NYSE:YPF opened at $20.26 on Tuesday. YPF Sociedad Anónima has a 1 year low of $9.57 and a 1 year high of $22.27. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $18.70 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $16.05. The stock has a market cap of $7.97 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -6.05 and a beta of 1.90. The company has a current ratio of 0.90, a quick ratio of 0.56 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.77.

YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, March 6th. The oil and gas exploration company reported $2.00 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $2.95 by ($0.95). YPF Sociedad Anónima had a negative net margin of 7.58% and a positive return on equity of 17.33%. The business had revenue of $4.19 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.47 billion. As a group, equities analysts expect that YPF Sociedad Anónima will post 6.14 earnings per share for the current year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted its stake in shares of YPF Sociedad Anónima by 260.4% during the 1st quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 313,202 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock worth $1,513,000 after buying an additional 226,287 shares during the last quarter. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Public School Empls Retrmt SYS boosted its position in YPF Sociedad Anónima by 31.0% during the first quarter. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Public School Empls Retrmt SYS now owns 55,621 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock valued at $269,000 after purchasing an additional 13,170 shares during the last quarter. Great West Life Assurance Co. Can grew its stake in YPF Sociedad Anónima by 40.1% in the first quarter. Great West Life Assurance Co. Can now owns 46,841 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock valued at $240,000 after purchasing an additional 13,400 shares in the last quarter. Mackenzie Financial Corp grew its stake in YPF Sociedad Anónima by 359.9% in the first quarter. Mackenzie Financial Corp now owns 79,111 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock valued at $382,000 after purchasing an additional 61,911 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Cibc World Markets Corp acquired a new position in shares of YPF Sociedad Anónima during the 1st quarter worth approximately $1,543,000. Institutional investors own 10.08% of the company’s stock.

YPF Sociedad Anónima Company Profile

YPF Sociedad Anónima, an energy company, engages in the oil and gas upstream and downstream activities in Argentina. Its upstream operations include the exploration, exploitation, and production of crude oil, natural gas, and NGLs. The company's downstream operations include the refining, marketing, and distribution of oil and petroleum products, as well as petroleum derivatives, such as petrochemicals, hydrocarbons, non-fossil fuels, biofuels, and related components; and production of hydrocarbons electric power.