The trading price of Vodafone Group plc ADR (NASDAQ:VOD) remained unchanged on Friday, May 23, and closing at $10.47.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it fluctuated between $10.31 and $10.5. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $10.60 and a 52-week low of $8.00. Over the past month, the stock has gained 11.98% in value.
Vodafone Group plc ADR, whose market valuation is $25.95 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report on 2003-Jul-30. The dividend yield on the company stock is 6.91%, while its Forward Dividend ratio is 0.72. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable.
On the technical side, indicators suggest VOD has a 100% Buy on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 100% Buy, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 50% Buy.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned VOD a recommendation rating is 7. Out of them, 2 rate it a Hold, while 5 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Vodafone Group plc ADR (VOD) as Underweight, while 0 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Buy, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
A quick review shows that VOD’s price is currently 8.09% off the SMA20 and 11.32% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 70.42, and weekly volatility stands at 3.69%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 2.22%. Vodafone Group plc ADR (NASDAQ:VOD)’s beta value is currently sitting at 0.52, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 0.23. With analysts defining $9.5-$9.5 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $9.5 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about 9.26% off the estimated low and 9.26% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if VOD’s share price rises to $9.5, which is the median consensus price. At that level, VOD’s share price would be 9.26% above current price.
To see how Vodafone Group plc ADR stock has been performing in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: VOD stock’s performance was 0.00% in the latest trading, and 9.98% in the past year.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Vodafone Group plc ADR (NASDAQ:VOD) indicates that the 3-month average is 14.43 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 19.33.
Currently, records show that 2.48 billion of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 0.00% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 9.07%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2025-04-30, stood at 14.25 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 1.0 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 57.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in April were down slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 16.13 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen 23.32% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even higher.
