(VIANEWS) - Shares of Afya (NASDAQ: AFYA) jumped by a staggering 20.8% in 5 sessions from $11.01 at 20.8, to $13.30 at 12:08 EST on Friday, after five successive sessions in a row of gains. NASDAQ is falling 0.5% to $12,104.91, following the last session's upward trend.
Afya's last close was $13.20, 22.44% under its 52-week high of $17.02.
About Afya
Afya Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates as a medical education group in Brazil. 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 also 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. As of December 31, 2021, it operated a network of 46 undergraduate and graduate medical school campuses consisted of 30 undergrad operating units and five approved units; and a network of 2,731 medical school seats that consisted of 2,481 operating seats and 278 approved seats. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Nova Lima, Brazil.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Afya has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.83.
PE Ratio
Afya has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 16.02. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $16.02 for every dollar of annual earnings.
The company's return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder's equity, for the twelve trailing months is 11.9%.Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 27.8%, now sitting on 2.24B for the twelve trailing months.
Stock Price Classification
According to the stochastic oscillator, a useful indicator of overbought and oversold conditions, Afya's stock is considered to be oversold (<=20).
Volume
Today's last reported volume for Afya is 96364 which is 60.6% below its average volume of 239126.
Sales Growth
Afya's sales growth is 25.2% for the ongoing quarter and 9% for the next.
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