How to buy Arcos Dorados stock | $4.98

Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc is a restaurants business based in the US. Arcos Dorados shares (ARCO) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Arcos Dorados employs 100,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$2.1 billion.

How to buy shares in Arcos Dorados

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Arcos Dorados. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: ARCO. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Arcos Dorados reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$4.98, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Arcos Dorados, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Arcos Dorados. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even 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 can affect your stock.

Arcos Dorados share price

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Arcos Dorados shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-27.

Latest market close	USD$4.98
52-week range	USD$2.8388 - USD$8.0081
50-day moving average	USD$4.9641
200-day moving average	USD$4.5495
Wall St. target price	USD$6.53
PE ratio	70.8571
Dividend yield	USD$0.16 (3.7%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.069

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Is it a good time to buy Arcos Dorados stock?

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Arcos Dorados price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $4.98 from 2021-01-11

1 week (2021-01-07)	-1.39%
1 month (2020-12-16)	-5.86%
3 months (2020-10-16)	21.17%
6 months (2020-07-16)	8.03%

1 year (2020-01-16)	-38.21%
2 years (2019-01-16)	-42.43%
3 years (2018-01-16)	9.55
5 years (2016-01-15)	91.54%

Is Arcos Dorados under- or over-valued?

Valuing Arcos Dorados stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Arcos Dorados's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Arcos Dorados's P/E ratio

Arcos Dorados's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 71x. In other words, Arcos Dorados shares trade at around 71x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Arcos Dorados's PEG ratio

Arcos Dorados's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.15. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Arcos Dorados's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Arcos Dorados's EBITDA

Arcos Dorados's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$108.6 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Arcos Dorados's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Arcos Dorados financials

Revenue TTM	USD$2.1 billion
Gross profit TTM	USD$363.1 million
Return on assets TTM	-0.6%
Return on equity TTM	-52.31%
Profit margin	-6.5%
Book value	$0.745
Market capitalisation	USD$1 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Arcos Dorados shares

There are currently 2.0 million Arcos Dorados shares held short by investors – that's known as Arcos Dorados's "short interest". This figure is 87.7% up from 1.1 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Arcos Dorados shares can be evaluated.

Arcos Dorados's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Arcos Dorados's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Arcos Dorados shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Arcos Dorados shares traded daily (recently around 1.1 million). Arcos Dorados's SIR currently stands at 1.87. In other words for every 100,000 Arcos Dorados shares traded daily on the market, roughly 1870 shares are currently held short.

However Arcos Dorados's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Arcos Dorados shares, or, against the total number of tradable Arcos Dorados shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Arcos Dorados's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Arcos Dorados shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.017% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Arcos Dorados shares, roughly 17 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Arcos Dorados.

Find out more about how you can short Arcos Dorados stock.

Arcos Dorados share dividends

We're not expecting Arcos Dorados to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Arcos Dorados's shares ever split?

Arcos Dorados's shares were split on a 76:75 basis on 31 July 2020. So if you had owned 75 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 76 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Arcos Dorados shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 1.3% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Arcos Dorados shares which in turn could have impacted Arcos Dorados's share price.

Arcos Dorados share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Arcos Dorados's shares have ranged in value from as little as $2.8388 up to $8.0081. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Arcos Dorados's is 1.6325. This would suggest that Arcos Dorados's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Arcos Dorados overview

Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. operates as a franchisee of McDonald's restaurants. It has the exclusive right to own, operate, and grant franchises of McDonald's restaurants in 20 countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Argentina, Aruba, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, the U.S. Virgin Islands of St. Croix and St. Thomas, and Venezuela. As of December 31, 2019, it operated or franchised 2,293 restaurants. Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Arcos Dorados is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 4.304% of Arcos Dorados shares are held by insiders and 75.453% by institutions.

• How many people work for Arcos Dorados?

  Latest data suggests 100,000 work at Arcos Dorados.

• When does the fiscal year end for Arcos Dorados?

  Arcos Dorados's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Arcos Dorados based?

  Arcos Dorados's address is: Dr. Luis Bonavita 1294, Montevideo, Uruguay, 11300

• What is Arcos Dorados's ISIN number?

  Arcos Dorados's international securities identification number is: US0618306262

• What is Arcos Dorados's CUSIP number?

  Arcos Dorados's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 061830626