Central Puerto ADR (NYSE:CEPU) price on Friday, January 17, fall -3.44% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $13.20.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $13.67, moving within a range at $12.8801 and $13.66. The PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 5.11. Turning to its 52-week performance, $16.60 and $6.89 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, CEPU moved -14.73% over the past month.
Central Puerto ADR’s market cap currently stands at around $2.00 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in February. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.06, with its dividend yield at 0.49%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 187.32B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 187.32B and 187.32B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 19.69% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 675.52B, representing a 115.43% 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 CEPU is a 50% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
CEPU’s current price about -9.19% and -4.81% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 38.77, while 7-day volatility ratio is 5.82% and 5.50% in the 30-day chart. Further, Central Puerto ADR (CEPU) has a beta value of 1.26, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.78. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $12, forecast between a low of $12 and high of $12. Looking at the price targets, the low is 9.09% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move 9.09%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 9.09% jump to $12 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Central Puerto ADR (NYSE:CEPU), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.54 over the past 10 days and 390.98K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 151.40 million shares.
Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 0.56 million on 2024-12-31, giving us a short ratio of 1.67. The data shows that as of 2024-12-31 short interest in Central Puerto ADR (CEPU) stood at 47.999998000000005 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 0.7 million registered in 2024-11-29. Current price change has pushed the stock -8.90% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the CEPU stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
