A$8.6
Argo Investments is an asset management business based in Australia. Argo Investments shares (ARG) are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and all prices are in Australian dollars. Argo Investments has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $280.6 million. If you're looking to buy shares, check out the steps below.
How to buy shares in Argo Investments
To buy shares listed in Australia such as Argo Investments, you'll need to sign up to a broker with access to the ASX. Our table can help you compare share trading platforms and choose. Then follow these steps.
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Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, including your ID and tax file number. Fund your account with a bank transfer, PayPal or debit card.
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Search for Argo Investments. Find the share by name or ticker symbol: ARG. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
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Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Argo Investments reaches your desired price. Look into dollar-cost averaging to spread out your risk, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
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Decide on how many to buy. At today's price, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimise risk through the market's ups and downs.
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Check on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Argo Investments. Optimise your portfolio by tracking how your stock and the business performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that affect your stock.
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Argo Investments stock price (ASX:ARG)
Use our graph to track the performance of ARG stocks over time.Argo Investments shares at a glance
52-week range | $8.1187 - $9.0219 |
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50-day moving average | $8.696 |
200-day moving average | $8.7201 |
Target price | $7.69 |
PE ratio | 24.6 |
Dividend yield | $0.345 (3.83%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.35 |
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Is it a good time to buy Argo Investments stock?
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Argo Investments price performance over time
Historical closes compared with the last close of A$8.64
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Is Argo Investments under- or over-valued?
Valuing Argo Investments stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Argo Investments's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Argo Investments's P/E ratio
Argo Investments's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 25x. In other words, Argo Investments shares trade at around 25x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the P/E ratio for the ASX over the 12 months to December 2019 (32.14). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Argo Investments's EBITDA
Argo Investments's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $270.5 million (£0.0 million).
The EBITDA is a measure of a Argo Investments's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure stock profitability.
Argo Investments financials
Revenue TTM | $280.6 million |
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Operating margin TTM | 96.27% |
Gross profit TTM | $280.5 million |
Return on assets TTM | 2.45% |
Return on equity TTM | 4.33% |
Profit margin | 92.67% |
Book value | 8.146 |
Market capitalisation | $6.6 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Argo Investments share dividends
We're not expecting Argo Investments to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Have Argo Investments's shares ever split?
Argo Investments's shares were split on a 1.0134:1 basis on 24 February 2002. So if you had owned 1 share the day before the split, the next day you would own 1.0134 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Argo Investments shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 1.3% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Argo Investments shares which in turn could have impacted Argo Investments's share price.
Argo Investments share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Argo Investments's shares have ranged in value from as little as $8.1187 up to $9.0219. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta measures a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (AU average) beta is 1, while Argo Investments's is 0.606. This would suggest that Argo Investments's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Argo Investments overview
Argo Investments Limited is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm manages separate client focused equity portfolios for its clients. It invests in public equity markets of Australia. The firm employs a qualitative analysis with bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolio. It conducts in-house analysis to make its investments. Argo Investments Limited was founded in 1946 and is based in Adelaide, Australia with an additional office in Sydney, Australia.
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Argo Investments in the news
Don't Race Out To Buy Argo Investments Limited (ASX:ARG) Just Because It's Going Ex-Dividend
Argo Investments (ASX:ARG) Has Affirmed Its Dividend Of A$0.165
Investing in Argo Investments (ASX:ARG) three years ago would have delivered you a 25% gain
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