YPFYPF Sociedad Anónima

$50.68+92% 1Y

Is the business good?

Good

Earnings fully cash-backed (8.7×). That is the only one of 4 checks this filer's data supports, so take it as a single data point rather than a settled answer.

1 good, 3 without data
Profits arrive as cash8.71×derived · Dec 31, 2021

Operating profit is fully backed by cash.

Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.

How good a business is YPF?

YPF Sociedad Anónima earns 3.0% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.

3.0%

Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 6.0 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value

Operating margin
4.6%

Operating margin · Oil & Gas Integrated median 10% · fiscal year to FY2021

Cash conversion
8.71×

Cash conversion · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax

Share count, year on year
+0.06%

Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution

Details›
Gross marginfiscal year to FY2021
19%
Operating marginfiscal year to FY2021
4.6%
Net marginfiscal year to FY2021
0.02%
R&D as % of revenue
0.15%
Revenue, trailing twelve months
$1.27T
Net income, trailing twelve months
$257M
Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
3.0%

Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.