Vodafone Group plc ADR (NASDAQ:VOD) price on current trading day, fall -0.41% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $8.45.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $8.48, moving within a range at $8.395 and $8.47. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.545 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 8.25. Turning to its 52-week performance, $10.39 and $8.02 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, VOD moved -2.82% over the past month.
Vodafone Group plc ADR’s market cap currently stands at around $21.48 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in February. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.73, with its dividend yield at 8.66%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 37.2B, representing a 1.31% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that VOD is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
7 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 2 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 5 recommend VOD as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
VOD’s current price about 0.62% and -3.09% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 47.57, while 7-day volatility ratio is 1.27% and 1.26% in the 30-day chart. Further, Vodafone Group plc ADR (VOD) has a beta value of 0.72, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.14. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $9.5, forecast between a low of $9.5 and high of $9.5. Looking at the price targets, the low is -12.43% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -12.43%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -12.43% jump to $9.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Vodafone Group plc ADR (NASDAQ:VOD), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 6.57 over the past 10 days and 6.38 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 2.54 billion shares.
The 0.05% of Vodafone Group plc ADR’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 8.10% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 7.65 million on 2024-12-31, giving us a short ratio of 1.02. The data shows that as of 2024-12-31 short interest in Vodafone Group plc ADR (VOD) stood at 30.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 5.16 million registered in 2024-11-29. Current price change has pushed the stock -0.53% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the VOD stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
