Ahold NV (OTCMKTS:ADRNY) Given Consensus Rating of “Buy” by Analysts

Ahold NV (OTCMKTS:ADRNY) has earned a consensus rating of “Buy” from the five analysts that are covering the company, Marketbeat Ratings reports. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and three have assigned a strong buy recommendation to the company.

ADRNY has been the subject of several research analyst reports. Jefferies Financial Group upgraded Ahold from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Monday, September 22nd. Kepler Capital Markets raised shares of Ahold from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 6th. UBS Group upgraded shares of Ahold from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, October 16th. Finally, Zacks Research cut shares of Ahold from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 14th.

Ahold Price Performance

ADRNY stock opened at €40.59 on Friday. Ahold has a 52-week low of €31.64 and a 52-week high of €43.26. The business has a fifty day moving average of €41.37 and a two-hundred day moving average of €41.04. The stock has a market cap of $36.65 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.17, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.88 and a beta of 0.48. The company has a quick ratio of 0.43, a current ratio of 0.72 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33.

Ahold (OTCMKTS:ADRNY) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, November 5th. The company reported €0.78 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Ahold had a return on equity of 16.19% and a net margin of 2.25%. As a group, research analysts anticipate that Ahold will post 2.84 earnings per share for the current year.

Ahold Company Profile

Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. operates retail food stores and e-commerce in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company's stores offer produce, dairy, meat, deli, bakery, seafood, and frozen products; grocery, beer, and wine; floral, pet food, health and beauty care, kitchen and cookware, gardening tools, general merchandise articles, electronics, newspapers and magazines, tobacco, etc.; gasoline; and pharmacy products.