Afya Ltd (NASDAQ: AFYA) is 15.49% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $14.52 and a high of $19.90 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The AFYA stock was last observed hovering at around $18.50 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.16%.
Currently trading at $18.34, the stock is 0.81% and -0.61% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.2 million and changing -0.86% at the moment leaves the stock 7.50% off its SMA200. AFYA registered 7.69% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 17.26%.
The stock witnessed a -2.50% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 1.89%, and is 1.95% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 0.92% over the week and 1.27% over the month.
Afya Ltd (AFYA) has around 9717 employees, a market worth around $1.66B and $612.60M in sales. Current P/E ratio is 14.15 and Fwd P/E is 9.25. Profit margin for the company is 19.71%. Distance from 52-week low is 26.31% and -7.84% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (9.63%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 0.26% this year
The shares outstanding are 46.49M, and float is at 12.63M with Short Float at 7.47%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is FMR LLC with over 3.44 million shares valued at $60.68 million. The investor’s holdings represent 3.7809 of the AFYA Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BAMCO INC /NY/ with 2.7 million shares valued at $47.68 million to account for 2.9711 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are SOFTBANK GROUP CORP. which holds 2.43 million shares representing 2.6762 and valued at over $42.95 million, while PERPETUAL LTD holds 0.6955 of the shares totaling 0.63 million with a market value of $11.16 million.
