Controladora Vuela Cia De Aviacion ADR (NYSE:VLRS) saw a downside of -3.03% to close Friday at $8.01 after subtracting -$0.25 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 734,820 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $9.01 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 655,450 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 494,656.
VLRS’s 1-month performance is -16.65% or -$1.67 on its low of $8.00 reached on 09/22/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $6.86 and high of $15.05, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 06/12/23. YTD, VLRS has lost -4.19% or -$0.35 and has reached a new high 29 times. However, the current price is down -46.78% from the 52-week high price.
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Valuation Metrics
VLRS stock has a beta of 2.50. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 0.28 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 5.35, with the price to cash flow ratio at 3.53.
Controladora Vuela Cia De Aviacion ADR’s quick ratio for the period ended March 30 was 0.65, with the current ratio over the same period at 0.66. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending March 30 was 15.35, while the total debt to equity was 18.27. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 11.54%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 15.33% while for the period ending March 30, Controladora Vuela Cia De Aviacion ADR’s operating margin was 3.32%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $1.55 billion against revenue of $2.85 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending March 30 this year, Net income and sales went up compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income grew 228.42% to -$80.22 million, while revenue of $0.0 was 100.0% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected VLRS to announce -$0.32 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted -$0.61, representing a -90.60% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $51.0 million. VLRS stock balance sheet for the quarter ending March 30 shows that total liabilities totaled 4.62 billion, with total debt at $3.14 billion.
Let’s look briefly at Controladora Vuela Cia De Aviacion ADR (VLRS) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 22 September was 25.51% to suggest the stock is trending oversold, with historical volatility in this time period at 78.51%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $8.39, reflecting a -10.80% or -$0.97 change from its current price. VLRS is currently trading -14.15% above its 20-day SMA, -32.75% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -42.62% and SMA200 by-16.82%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 8.30% and 8.66% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.51. The RSI (14) points at 28.52%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 0.41% with the period’s ATR at 0.49. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.53 and -0.79 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Controladora Vuela Cia De Aviacion ADR (NYSE: VLRS), JP Morgan launched coverage with an Overweight rating. Analysts offering their rating for VLRS stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Buy. Currently, 0 brokerage advisors rate VLRS as a “sell,”, while 0 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 2 rates the stock as overweight while 12 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is VLRS’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $14.98 and a high of $27.00, with their median price target at $20.00. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Controladora Vuela Cia De Aviacion ADR (VLRS) stock is $19.83.
