Vodafone Group Plc Stock Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation
| VOD Stock | USD 8.36 0.07 0.83% |
Considering the 90-day investment horizon and your complete indifference towards market risk, our recommendation regarding Vodafone Group PLC is 'Strong Buy'. Macroaxis provides Vodafone Group buy-hold-or-sell recommendation only in the context of selected investment horizon and investor attitude towards risk assumed by holding VOD positions.
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Risk Tolerance
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Strong Buy
Market Performance | Very Weak | Details | |
Volatility | Not too volatile | Details | |
Hype Condition | Stale | Details | |
Current Valuation | Undervalued | Details | |
Odds Of Distress | Very Low | Details | |
Economic Sensitivity | Barely shadows the market | Details | |
Investor Sentiment | Alarmed | Details | |
Analyst Consensus | Buy | Details | |
Financial Strenth (F Score) | Healthy | Details | |
Financial Leverage | Not Rated | Details | |
Reporting Quality (M-Score) | Unlikely Manipulator | Details |
Vodafone Group Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions
| Vodafone Group PLC generated a negative expected return over the last 90 days | |
| Vodafone Group PLC has 57 B in debt with debt to equity (D/E) ratio of 1.27, which is OK given its current industry classification. Vodafone Group PLC has a current ratio of 0.83, suggesting that it has not enough short term capital to pay financial commitments when the payables are due. Note however, debt could still be an excellent tool for Vodafone to invest in growth at high rates of return. | |
| On 7th of February 2025 Vodafone Group paid $ 0.242 per share dividend to its current shareholders | |
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Vodafone Group Returns Distribution Density
The distribution of Vodafone Group's historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of Vodafone Group's future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of Vodafone Group daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use Vodafone Group PLC price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of Vodafone Group returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for Vodafone Group.
| Mean Return | -0.11 | Value At Risk | -2.55 | Potential Upside | 2.39 | Standard Deviation | 1.76 |
Return Density |
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Investment risk management requires an estimate of the probability of extreme price changes. Therefore, the correct representation of the distribution of Vodafone Group historical returns presented in an easy-to-digest graphical form helps investors and money managers understand the risk-reward trade-off of different investement strategies.
Vodafone Stock Institutional Investors
| Shares | Pacer Advisors, Inc. | 2024-12-31 | 4.7 M | Bank Of Montreal | 2024-09-30 | 4.3 M | Bmo Capital Markets Corp. | 2024-09-30 | 4.3 M | Bank Of America Corp | 2024-09-30 | 4.2 M | Royal Bank Of Canada | 2024-09-30 | 4.1 M | Hsbc Holdings Plc | 2024-09-30 | 3.8 M | Goldentree Asset Management Lp | 2024-09-30 | 3.3 M | Blackrock Inc | 2024-09-30 | 2.8 M | Abc Arbitrage Sa | 2024-12-31 | 2.7 M | Alpine Investment Management Llc | 2024-09-30 | 21.9 M | Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership | 2024-09-30 | 18.9 M |
Vodafone Group Cash Flow Accounts
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 (projected) | ||
| Depreciation | 14.1B | 13.8B | 13.6B | 10.4B | 12.0B | 8.2B | |
| Other Non Cash Items | 1.5B | 1.9B | (8.7B) | 4.8B | 4.3B | 4.5B | |
| Capital Expenditures | 8.6B | 9.1B | 9.2B | 6.9B | 7.9B | 6.6B | |
| Net Income | 536M | 2.6B | 12.3B | 1.1B | 1.3B | 2.5B | |
| End Period Cash Flow | 5.8B | 7.4B | 11.6B | 6.1B | 7.0B | 4.8B | |
| Change To Inventory | (68M) | (162M) | (180M) | 177M | 159.3M | 167.3M | |
| Change In Cash | (7.5B) | 1.6B | 4.3B | (5.5B) | (5.0B) | (4.7B) | |
| Free Cash Flow | 8.6B | 9.0B | 8.8B | 9.7B | 11.2B | 11.7B | |
| Dividends Paid | 2.4B | 2.5B | 2.5B | 2.4B | 2.8B | 3.2B | |
| Investments | (1.6B) | 1.3B | (379M) | (6.1B) | (5.5B) | (5.2B) | |
| Net Borrowings | (3.5B) | (10.7B) | (2.7B) | (6.3B) | (5.7B) | (5.4B) | |
| Change To Netincome | 4.2B | 3.0B | 2.2B | (8.1B) | (9.3B) | (8.8B) |
Vodafone Group Greeks
Most traded equities are subject to two types of risk - systematic (i.e., market) and unsystematic (i.e., nonmarket or company-specific) risk. Unsystematic risk is the risk that events specific to Vodafone Group or Wireless Telecommunication Services sector will adversely affect the stock's price. This type of risk can be diversified away by owning several different stocks in different industries whose stock prices have shown a small correlation to each other. On the other hand, systematic risk is the risk that Vodafone Group's price will be affected by overall stock market movements and cannot be diversified away. So, no matter how many positions you have, you cannot eliminate market risk. However, you can measure a Vodafone stock's historical response to market movements and buy it if you are comfortable with its volatility direction. Beta and standard deviation are two commonly used measures to help you make the right decision.
α | Alpha over Dow Jones | -0.12 | |
β | Beta against Dow Jones | 0.17 | |
σ | Overall volatility | 1.32 | |
Ir | Information ratio | -0.07 |
Vodafone Group Volatility Alert
Vodafone Group PLC exhibits very low volatility with skewness of -1.87 and kurtosis of 9.42. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Vodafone Group's stock risk against market volatility during both bullish and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Vodafone Group's stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different financial instruments as prices fall.Vodafone Group Implied Volatility
Vodafone Group's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Vodafone Group PLC stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Vodafone Group's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Vodafone Group stock will not fluctuate a lot when Vodafone Group's options are near their expiration.
Vodafone Group Fundamentals Vs Peers
Comparing Vodafone Group's fundamentals to the average values of its peers is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It helps to analyze Vodafone Group's direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between Vodafone Group and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as Vodafone Group or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of Vodafone Group's fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Vodafone Group by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
| Better Than Average | Worse Than Average | Compare Vodafone Group to competition |
| Fundamentals | Vodafone Group | Peer Average |
| Return On Equity | 0.0441 | -0.31 |
| Return On Asset | 0.0176 | -0.14 |
| Profit Margin | 0.07 % | (1.27) % |
| Operating Margin | 0.13 % | (5.51) % |
| Current Valuation | 65.66 B | 16.62 B |
| Shares Outstanding | 2.51 B | 571.82 M |
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 10.93 M | 4.71 M |
| Price To Earning | 10.80 X | 28.72 X |
| Price To Book | 0.34 X | 9.51 X |
| Price To Sales | 0.57 X | 11.42 X |
| Revenue | 36.72 B | 9.43 B |
| Gross Profit | 12.44 B | 27.38 B |
| EBITDA | 14.78 B | 3.9 B |
| Net Income | 1.14 B | 570.98 M |
| Cash And Equivalents | 14.73 B | 2.7 B |
| Cash Per Share | 5.19 X | 5.01 X |
| Total Debt | 57 B | 5.32 B |
| Debt To Equity | 1.27 % | 48.70 % |
| Current Ratio | 0.85 X | 2.16 X |
| Book Value Per Share | 2.23 X | 1.93 K |
| Cash Flow From Operations | 16.56 B | 971.22 M |
| Short Ratio | 1.55 X | 4.00 X |
| Earnings Per Share | 0.91 X | 3.12 X |
| Price To Earnings To Growth | 0.61 X | 4.89 X |
| Target Price | 11.63 | |
| Number Of Employees | 93 K | 18.84 K |
| Beta | 0.56 | -0.15 |
| Market Capitalization | 21.1 B | 19.03 B |
| Total Asset | 144.38 B | 29.47 B |
| Retained Earnings | (114.66 B) | 9.33 B |
| Working Capital | 9.36 B | 1.48 B |
| Current Asset | 28.14 B | 9.34 B |
| Current Liabilities | 33.4 B | 7.9 B |
Vodafone Group Market Momentum
Traders often use several daily momentume indicators to supplement a more traditional technical analysis when analyzing securities such as Vodafone . With many different options, investors must choose the best indicators for them and familiarize themselves with how they work. We suggest combining traditional momentum indicators with more near-term forms of technical analysis such as Accumulation Distribution or Daily Balance Of Power. With their quantitative nature, daily value technical indicators can also be incorporated into your automated trading systems.
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Is Wireless Telecommunication Services space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Vodafone Group. If investors know Vodafone will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Vodafone Group listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth 8.21 | Dividend Share 0.068 | Earnings Share 0.91 | Revenue Per Share | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.016 |
The market value of Vodafone Group PLC is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Vodafone that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Vodafone Group's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Vodafone Group's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Vodafone Group's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Vodafone Group's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Vodafone Group's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Vodafone Group is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Vodafone Group's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.