Don't Buy Ambev S.A. Before Checking Its Fundamentals!

By Emilio Sanchez • Tuesday, October 25 12:00 • Permanent Link

Ambev S.A. marked a -2.1% change today, compared to 0.8% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $2.77? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

Ambev S.A. is a Brazil-based multinational brewing company
Ambev S.A. belongs to the Consumer Defensive sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 24.21 and an average price to book (P/B) of 4.09
The company's P/B ratio is 0.5
Ambev S.A. has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 16.3 based on its trailing earnings per share (Eps) of $0.17
Its forward P/E ratio is 21.3 is, based on its forward earnings per share (Eps) of $0.17
ABEV has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 2.07, which shows the company is overvalued when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.
Over the last four years, Ambev S.A. has averaged free cash flows of $14,368,473,750.00, which on average grew 1.3%
ABEV's gross profit margins have averaged 56.2 % over the last four years and during this time they had a growth rate of -6.1 % and a coefficient of variability of 8.4 %.
Ambev S.A. has moved 4.8% over the last year compared to -17.0% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of 21.8%
ABEV has an average analyst rating of hold and is -17.56% away from its mean target price of $3.36 per share

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