Ideas And Forecasts On Vodafone Group Public Limited Company (NASDAQ: VOD)

Vodafone Group Public Limited Company (NASDAQ:VOD) currently has a daily average trading volume of 5.99M but it saw 10826815 shares traded on Thursday. With a market cap of 26.74B USD, stock’s current market price of $9.90 came falling about -2.94 while comparing to the previous closing price of $10.20. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $16.88 and as low as $9.94. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $10.0584 while lowest mark touched by it was $9.865.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Vodafone Group Public Limited Company (VOD) gives us an average price of $11.10, while its current price level is -41.35% below from 52-week high level whereas it is -0.40% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $11.17 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $11.63. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.83% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 1.69%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 28.30 which implies that the stock is in oversold territory.

Vodafone Group Public Limited Company (VOD)’s stock is currently under the radar of 16 analysts who are in consensus at a 12-month price target range of between $8.75 and $23.12 for company’s shares. The average price target assigned by the average number of analysts to a stock is a way to gauge worth of any stock in next 52 weeks. And in assigning price target to a stock, some analysts adopt a bearish approach by advocating lower-than-average price target which in this case is $8.75 while some adopt bullish approach by assigning higher-than-average price target which reads the price to top $23.12. Average price target assigned by them is $14.10 which highlights an upside potential of 29.79% for the stock over that period. And to attain the median price target of $13.66 assigned by those analysts, stock has to add about 27.53% of value to its current levels.

Data by FactSet Research shows that 16 analysts have issued their ratings for the stock. 2 of them are in opinions that stock is a Sell, while 0 are advising it as an Overweight. 8 analysts suggested the investors to Buy the stock while 6 advised them to Hold. Recommendations by all of those brokerages imply a consensus rating of Overweight for the stock and that issued by Wall Street to investors is Strong Buy.

Over the week, VOD’s stock price is moving -3.41% down while it is -15.17% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -2.17% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -40.22%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in 07/27/2023, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of $0 while estimate for next year EPS is $0.

Currently, Vodafone Group Public Limited Company’s total number of outstanding shares is 2.70B. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 3.30%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 2.13. Stock’s beta reads 0.78. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.00 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.54.

As per SEC documents, Vanguard Windsor Funds – Vanguard shunned 9,071,932 of company’s common stock of worth $108.41 million as per recent closing price of the stock. Vanguard Windsor Funds – Vanguard is not the only institutional holder which restructured its stake in Vodafone Group Public Limited Company, as T Rowe Price Overseas Stock Fund dumped 8,820,004 shares of worth $105.4 million to bring its holdings to a total of 33700.0 shares.