Vitru Brasil Empreendimentos, Participações e Comércio S.A

NasdaqGS:VTRU Stock Report

Market Cap: US$304.2m

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Vitru Valuation

Is VTRU undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

3/6

Valuation Score 3/6

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Peers

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Industry

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio

  • Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of VTRU when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Discounted Cash Flow
Simply Wall St
US$15.02
Fair Value
39.6% undervalued intrinsic discount
6
Number of Analysts

Below Fair Value: VTRU ($9.07) is trading below our estimate of fair value ($15.02)

Significantly Below Fair Value: VTRU is trading below fair value by more than 20%.

Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for VTRU?

Key metric: As VTRU is profitable we use its Price-To-Earnings Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Earnings ratio for VTRU. This is calculated by dividing VTRU's market cap by their current earnings.
What is VTRU's PE Ratio?
PE Ratio27.2x
EarningsR$59.98m
Market CapR$1.63b

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Peers

How does VTRU's PE Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PE ratio for VTRU vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PEEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average27.8x
LINC Lincoln Educational Services
46.3x51.2%US$456.4m
CHGG Chegg
n/a127.0%US$186.7m
UTI Universal Technical Institute
35.2x29.7%US$1.3b
QSG QuantaSing Group
1.8x-25.6%US$100.7m
VTRU Vitru
27.2x49.6%US$304.2m

Price-To-Earnings vs Peers: VTRU is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (27.2x) compared to the peer average (22.2x).

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Industry

How does VTRU's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the US Consumer Services Industry?

7 CompaniesPrice / EarningsEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
QSG QuantaSing Group
1.8x-25.6%US$100.69m
STG Sunlands Technology Group
1.3xn/aUS$75.17m
RGS Regis
0.6xn/aUS$51.22m
REDU RISE Education Cayman
1xn/aUS$40.41m
VTRU 27.2xIndustry Avg. 20.5xNo. of Companies7PE01632486480+
7 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Earnings vs Industry: VTRU is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (27.2x) compared to the US Consumer Services industry average (20.2x).

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is VTRU's PE Ratio compared to its Fair PE Ratio? This is the expected PE Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

VTRU PE Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PE Ratio27.2x
Fair PE Ratio26.1x

Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio: VTRU is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (27.2x) compared to the estimated Fair Price-To-Earnings Ratio (26.1x).

Analyst Price Targets

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

The above table shows the analyst VTRU forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
Currentn/a
US$20.75
0%
14.1%US$25.00US$16.81n/a6
Jan ’26n/a
US$20.75
0%
14.1%US$25.00US$16.81n/a6
Dec ’25n/a
US$20.75
0%
14.1%US$25.00US$16.81n/a6
Nov ’25n/a
US$20.75
0%
14.1%US$25.00US$16.81n/a6
Oct ’25n/a
US$20.75
0%
14.1%US$25.00US$16.81n/a6
Sep ’25n/a
US$20.75
0%
14.1%US$25.00US$16.81n/a6
Aug ’25n/a
US$20.75
0%
14.1%US$25.00US$16.81n/a6
Jul ’25n/a
US$20.75
0%
14.1%US$25.00US$16.81n/a6
Jun ’25US$9.20
US$21.56
+134.3%
18.5%US$26.02US$15.06n/a7
May ’25US$12.54
US$27.99
+123.2%
21.4%US$40.21US$20.72n/a6
Apr ’25US$15.00
US$26.03
+73.5%
13.7%US$31.25US$21.49n/a6
Mar ’25US$13.57
US$26.05
+91.9%
12.4%US$31.32US$21.99n/a6
Feb ’25US$14.35
US$25.94
+80.8%
13.0%US$31.22US$21.45n/a6
Jan ’25US$15.76
US$27.99
+77.6%
11.2%US$32.00US$21.99n/a6
Dec ’24US$12.76
US$27.98
+119.3%
11.2%US$31.99US$21.99n/a6
Nov ’24US$13.05
US$27.03
+107.1%
15.4%US$33.30US$21.50n/a6
Oct ’24US$17.59
US$26.29
+49.5%
16.5%US$33.07US$21.36n/a6
Sep ’24US$16.03
US$26.60
+66.0%
14.7%US$33.90US$21.89n/a7
Aug ’24US$16.59
US$27.06
+63.1%
14.1%US$33.71US$22.41n/a7
Jul ’24US$16.03
US$26.34
+64.3%
13.3%US$30.42US$22.06n/a7
Jun ’24US$15.08
US$25.83
+71.3%
13.9%US$29.96US$20.97US$9.207
May ’24US$14.23
US$27.66
+94.4%
9.7%US$31.23US$23.95US$12.547
Apr ’24US$22.76
US$26.85
+18.0%
9.4%US$30.15US$23.12US$15.007
Mar ’24US$23.22
US$25.64
+10.4%
10.3%US$29.06US$22.04US$13.577
Feb ’24US$22.11
US$25.87
+17.0%
10.8%US$29.67US$22.51US$14.357
Jan ’24US$22.50
US$23.49
+4.4%
17.8%US$29.11US$14.93US$15.768

Analyst Forecast: Target price is more than 20% higher than the current share price and analysts are within a statistically confident range of agreement.

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2024/06/10 07:39
End of Day Share Price 2024/06/10 00:00
Earnings2024/03/31
Annual Earnings2023/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

PackageDataTimeframeExample US Source *
Company Financials10 years
  • Income statement
  • Cash flow statement
  • Balance sheet
Analyst Consensus Estimates+3 years
  • Forecast financials
  • Analyst price targets
Market Prices30 years
  • Stock prices
  • Dividends, Splits and Actions
Ownership10 years
  • Top shareholders
  • Insider trading
Management10 years
  • Leadership team
  • Board of directors
Key Developments10 years
  • Company announcements

* example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more here.

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Industry and Sector Metrics

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Analyst Sources

Vitru Brasil Empreendimentos, Participações e Comércio S.A is covered by 13 analysts. 6 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Fred MendesBofA Global Research
Flavio YoshidaBofA Global Research
Marcio OsakoBradesco S.A. Corretora de Títulos e Valores Mobiliários