YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF) Shares Up 7.1%

YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF)’s stock price shot up 7.1% on Monday . The company traded as high as $20.88 and last traded at $20.71. 2,193,214 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 6% from the average session volume of 2,344,191 shares. The stock had previously closed at $19.34.

Analyst Ratings Changes

YPF has been the subject of several recent research reports. UBS Group raised YPF Sociedad Anónima from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and boosted their price objective for the stock from $18.00 to $27.00 in a report on Thursday, February 22nd. Citigroup cut YPF Sociedad Anónima from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and boosted their price objective for the stock from $20.00 to $24.00 in a report on Wednesday, April 17th. StockNews.com cut YPF Sociedad Anónima from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday, April 16th. The Goldman Sachs Group upped their price target on YPF Sociedad Anónima from $17.40 to $20.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday, April 18th. Finally, Morgan Stanley raised YPF Sociedad Anónima from an “underweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and upped their price target for the company from $10.50 to $22.00 in a research note on Thursday, March 21st. Six research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and one has given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $20.58.

YPF Sociedad Anónima Trading Up 0.4 %

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.77, a quick ratio of 0.56 and a current ratio of 0.90. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $18.97 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $16.27. The stock has a market cap of $8.21 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -6.23 and a beta of 1.90.

YPF Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:YPF) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, March 6th. The oil and gas exploration company reported $2.00 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.95 by ($0.95). YPF Sociedad Anónima had a positive return on equity of 17.33% and a negative net margin of 7.58%. The firm had revenue of $4.19 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $4.47 billion. As a group, research analysts forecast that YPF Sociedad Anónima will post 6.14 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in YPF. Barclays PLC grew its holdings in shares of YPF Sociedad Anónima by 8,333.3% during the 2nd quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 5,060 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock worth $75,000 after purchasing an additional 5,000 shares in the last quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC grew its holdings in shares of YPF Sociedad Anónima by 93.5% during the 3rd quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC now owns 16,056 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock worth $197,000 after purchasing an additional 7,760 shares in the last quarter. Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. grew its holdings in shares of YPF Sociedad Anónima by 3.3% during the 3rd quarter. Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. now owns 44,780 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock worth $549,000 after purchasing an additional 1,414 shares in the last quarter. Arlington Capital Management Inc. grew its holdings in shares of YPF Sociedad Anónima by 95.9% during the 3rd quarter. Arlington Capital Management Inc. now owns 126,179 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock worth $1,546,000 after purchasing an additional 61,754 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Mackenzie Financial Corp grew its holdings in shares of YPF Sociedad Anónima by 46.9% during the 3rd quarter. Mackenzie Financial Corp now owns 17,263 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock worth $201,000 after purchasing an additional 5,509 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 10.08% of the company’s stock.

YPF Sociedad Anónima Company Profile

YPF Sociedad Anónima, an energy company, engages in the oil and gas upstream and downstream activities in Argentina. Its upstream operations include the exploration, exploitation, and production of crude oil, natural gas, and NGLs. The company's downstream operations include the refining, marketing, and distribution of oil and petroleum products, as well as petroleum derivatives, such as petrochemicals, hydrocarbons, non-fossil fuels, biofuels, and related components; and production of hydrocarbons electric power.