How to buy Afya stock (AFYA)

Afya is an education & training services business based in the US. Afya shares (AFYA) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $15.50 – a decrease of 0.9% over the previous week.

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Afya stock price (NASDAQ: AFYA)

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Afya shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2024-12-19.

Latest market close	$15.50
52-week range	$14.52 - $22.48
50-day moving average more info button	$16.59
200-day moving average more info button	$17.44
Wall St. target price	$18.72
PE ratio more info button	14.0192
Dividend yield more info button	N/A
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$1.04

Is it a good time to buy Afya stock?

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Afya price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $15.24 from 2024-12-19

1 week (2024-12-13)	-2.56%
1 month (2024-11-21)	-6.27%
3 months (2024-09-20)	-7.07%
6 months (2024-06-21)	-8.41%

1 year (2023-12-21)	-29.83%
2 years (2022-12-21)	-2.43%
3 years (2021-12-21)	8.78%
5 years (2019-12-20)	28.3

Is Afya stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Afya stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Afya's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Afya's P/E ratio

Afya's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 14x. In other words, Afya shares trade at around 14x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Afya's EBITDA

Afya's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $1.1 billion.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Afya's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Afya financials

Revenue TTM	$3.1 billion
Operating margin TTM	28.5%
Gross profit TTM	$1.5 billion
Return on assets TTM	7.11%
Return on equity TTM	15.28%
Profit margin	18.03%
Book value	$40.04
Market Capitalization more info button	$1.3 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Afya share dividends

We're not expecting Afya to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Afya share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Afya's shares have ranged in value from as little as $14.52 up to $22.48. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Afya's is 0.917. This would suggest that Afya's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Afya overview

Afya Limited operates as a medical education group in Brazil. The company operates through three segments: Undergrad, Continuing Education, and Digital Services. It offers educational products and services, including medical schools, medical residency preparatory courses, graduate courses, and other programs to lifelong medical learners enrolled across its distribution network, as well as to third-party medical schools. The company provides digital health services, such as subscription-based mobile app and website portal that focuses on assisting health professionals and students with clinical decision-making through tools, such as medical calculators, charts, and updated content, as well as prescriptions, clinical scores, medical procedures and laboratory exams, and others. It offers health sciences courses, which comprise medicine, dentistry, nursing, radiology, psychology, pharmacy, physical education, physiotherapy, nutrition, and biomedicine; and degree programs and courses in other subjects and disciplines, including undergraduate and post graduate courses in business administration, accounting, law, civil engineering, industrial engineering, and pedagogy. In addition, the company provides medical postgraduate specialization programs; printed and digital content; and an online medical education platform and practical medical training services. Further, it offers iClinic, a practice management software; educational health and medical imaging solutions through an interactive platform; Cliquefarma, a free-to-use website that tracks prescription drugs, cosmetics and personal hygiene product prices; Shosp, a clinical management software; RX PRO, a solution that connects physicians with the pharmaceutical industry; and Glic, a free diabetes care and management app solution for physicians and patients.

Frequently asked questions

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What percentage of Afya is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 84.137% of Afya shares are held by insiders and 23.06% by institutions. When does the fiscal year end for Afya?
Afya's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Afya based?
Afya's address is: Alameda Oscar Niemeyer, No. 119, Nova Lima, MG, Brazil What is Afya's ISIN number?
Afya's international securities identification number is: KYG011251066 What is Afya's CUSIP number?
Afya's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: G01125106