Traders Purchase Large Volume of Call Options on YPF Sociedad Anonima (NYSE:YPF)

YPF Sociedad Anonima (NYSE:YPF) was the recipient of unusually large options trading on Monday. Stock investors purchased 10,085 call options on the company. This is an increase of 97% compared to the average volume of 5,122 call options.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. RWC Asset Management LLP raised its position in shares of YPF Sociedad Anonima by 0.4% during the third quarter. RWC Asset Management LLP now owns 117,075 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock worth $2,844,000 after purchasing an additional 519 shares during the period. Atlas Capital Advisors Inc. raised its position in shares of YPF Sociedad Anonima by 5.4% during the first quarter. Atlas Capital Advisors Inc. now owns 11,459 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock worth $402,000 after purchasing an additional 582 shares during the period. Personal CFO Solutions LLC raised its position in shares of YPF Sociedad Anonima by 5.9% during the second quarter. Personal CFO Solutions LLC now owns 10,476 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock worth $329,000 after purchasing an additional 584 shares during the period. LWM Advisory Services LLC grew its holdings in shares of YPF Sociedad Anonima by 11.1% during the first quarter. LWM Advisory Services LLC now owns 12,858 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock valued at $451,000 after buying an additional 1,282 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Activest Wealth Management raised its position in YPF Sociedad Anonima by 2.6% during the second quarter. Activest Wealth Management now owns 52,215 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock valued at $1,642,000 after buying an additional 1,329 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 10.08% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities analysts have recently commented on the company. JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut their price objective on YPF Sociedad Anonima from $47.00 to $44.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, October 17th. Weiss Ratings restated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of YPF Sociedad Anonima in a report on Wednesday, October 8th. Finally, Zacks Research upgraded YPF Sociedad Anonima from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, October 23rd. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and five have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $43.60.

YPF Sociedad Anonima Price Performance

Shares of YPF opened at $33.34 on Tuesday. The firm has a market cap of $13.11 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.76, a PEG ratio of 0.64 and a beta of 1.72. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $27.50 and a 200-day moving average of $31.29. The company has a current ratio of 0.75, a quick ratio of 0.55 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.67. YPF Sociedad Anonima has a 52 week low of $22.82 and a 52 week high of $47.43.

YPF Sociedad Anonima (NYSE:YPF) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, August 7th. The oil and gas exploration company reported $0.13 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.56 by ($0.43). The firm had revenue of $3.47 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.37 million. YPF Sociedad Anonima had a return on equity of 12.39% and a net margin of 6.32%. As a group, analysts forecast that YPF Sociedad Anonima will post 7.25 EPS for the current year.

YPF Sociedad Anonima Company Profile

YPF Sociedad Anónima, an energy company, engages in the oil and gas upstream and downstream activities in Argentina. Its upstream operations include the exploration, exploitation, and production of crude oil, and natural gas. The company’s downstream operations include petrochemical production and crude oil refining; transportation and distribution refined and petrochemical products; commercialization of crude oil, petrochemical products, and specialties.