It's Time For a Quick Look at MercadoLibre's Fundamentals.

By Naomi Wentworth • Thursday, January 12 10:36 • Permanent Link

With gains of 3.9%, MercadoLibre was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $973.01 and have logged a 0.2% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

MELI has an average analyst rating of buy and is -25.8% away from its mean target price of $1311.38 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $-0.08
MercadoLibre has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of -12162.6 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $6.65 and its forward P/E ratio is 146.3
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 29.4 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
MercadoLibre is part of the Consumer Cyclical sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 24.11 and an average P/B of 3.11
MELI has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 78.0% and gross profit margins of 0.5%
The company has a free cash flow of $-1,711,452,160.00, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
MercadoLibre, Inc. operates online commerce platforms in Latin America. It operates Mercado Libre Marketplace, an automated online commerce platform that enables businesses, merchants, and individuals to list merchandise and conduct sales and purchases online.

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