What Our Analysts Know About Ambev

By Tamara Parker • Friday, August 23 15:06 • Permanent Link

Ambev logged a 2.8% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $2.4 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 1.0%. ABEV's trading volume is 32,839,698 compared to the stock's average volume of 22,687,454.

Ambev trades -23.48% away from its average analyst target price of $3.13 per share. The 8 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $1.95 to $5.0, and on average have given Ambev a rating of buy.

If you are considering an investment in ABEV, you'll want to know the following:

Ambev's current price is -76.7% below its Graham number of $10.26, which implies the stock has a margin of safety
Ambev has moved -18.5% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 26.4%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 0.17, Ambev has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 14.1 while the S&P 500 average is 28.21
ABEV has a forward P/E ratio of 13.3 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $0.18 per share
The company has a price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 4.99 — a number near or below 1 signifying that Ambev is fairly valued compared to its estimated growth potential
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 0.4 compared to its sector average of 3.05
Ambev S.A., through its subsidiaries, engages in the production, distribution, and sale of beer, draft beer, carbonated soft drinks, malt and food, other alcoholic beverages, and non-alcoholic and non-carbonated products in Brazil, Central America and Caribbean, Latin America South, and Canada.
Based in São Paulo, the company has 43,000 full time employees and a market cap of $38.16 Billion. Ambev currently returns an annual dividend yield of 31.3%.

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