News stories about YPF Sociedad Anonima (NYSE:YPF) have been trending somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. YPF Sociedad Anonima earned a news sentiment score of 0.15 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave news articles about the oil and gas exploration company an impact score of 46.0240994070196 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock’s share price in the near term.
YPF has been the subject of several recent research reports. J P Morgan Chase & Co reissued an “underweight” rating on shares of YPF Sociedad Anonima in a research report on Tuesday, May 2nd. Zacks Investment Research lowered YPF Sociedad Anonima from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, April 6th. Credit Suisse Group reaffirmed a “market perform” rating on shares of YPF Sociedad Anonima in a research report on Friday, April 14th. BidaskClub lowered YPF Sociedad Anonima from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Friday, June 16th. Finally, ValuEngine raised YPF Sociedad Anonima from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, June 2nd. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and two have assigned a buy rating to the stock. The stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $24.70.
YPF Sociedad Anonima (NYSE:YPF) traded down 2.09% during midday trading on Friday, hitting $19.66. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 705,207 shares. YPF Sociedad Anonima has a one year low of $15.00 and a one year high of $26.48. The company’s market cap is $7.68 billion. The company’s 50-day moving average is $21.54 and its 200 day moving average is $22.89.
The firm also recently declared an annual dividend, which was paid on Thursday, July 6th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, July 6th were paid a $0.073 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, July 3rd. YPF Sociedad Anonima’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently -1.40%.
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About YPF Sociedad Anonima
YPF Sociedad Anonima (YPF) is an energy company. The Company is operating a fully integrated oil and gas chain. The Company operates through the segments, including Exploration and Production, Downstream, and Corporate and Other. The Company’s Exploration and Production segment includes exploration and production activities, natural gas and crude oil purchases, sales of natural gas, and to a lesser extent crude oil, to third parties and intersegment sales of crude oil, natural gas and its byproducts.
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