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Afya Limited (AFYA)

Consumer Defensive | Education & Training Services | Belo Horizonte, Brazil | NasdaqGS
15.82 USD +15.82 (-0.252%) ⇧ (April 20, 2026, 4 p.m. EDT)

Short-term: ★★☆☆☆ | Long-term: ★★★☆☆ | Dividends: ★★★★☆
Hot Take | April 18, 2026, 10:55 p.m. EDT

Afya Limited presents a high-quality 'income anchor' with a robust 16% payout ratio and attractive yield, but the equity thesis remains neutral-to-negative in the short term due to an unchanged fundamental landscape and muted options positioning. The lack of call aggression despite reasonable valuation suggests smart money views the balance between the 4% yield and downside risk as precarious until earnings growth picks up steam.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
AutoARIMA ✓0.055066
AutoETS0.055066
MSTL0.055113
AutoTheta0.056927

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoARIMA

Forecast Reliability
Score 59%
H-stat 2.11
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.194
Excess Kurtosis -1.28
Attribute Value
Sector Consumer Defensive
Ex Dividend Date 2026-03-24
Last Dividend Date 2026-03-24
Debt to Equity Ratio 63.788
Revenue per Share 40.865
Market Cap 1,421,706,624
Trailing P/E 9.59
Forward P/E 7.31
Beta 0.51
Profit Margins 20.35%
Website https://www.afya.com.br

As of April 18, 2026, 10:55 p.m. EDT: Options activity indicates a defensive stance with significant open interest (OI) at lower strikes (10.0 and 12.5) for the June-18 expiration, signaling 5–10% downside protection. The bullish side shows minimal interest, with only tiny OI at near-term strikes (17.5) and deep OTM. Implied volatility (IV) is elevated at deeper OTM strikes for both calls and puts, suggesting speculators are hedging against volatility or positioning for a modest drawdown, while the near-term ATM IV remains low. Volume at the March-April strikes is sparse, indicating flat sentiment for immediate directional moves.


Dividend Data

Yield Summary
Last Yield 1yr Yield 3yr Avg 5yr Avg
4.33% 4.33%
Dividend History
Date Dividend Yield %
2026-03-25 0.656 4.327177
2025-03-26 0.232 1.350388
Additional Data
dividendRate 0.66
dividendYield 4.14
exDividendDate 2026-03-25
trailingAnnualDividendRate 3.447
trailingAnnualDividendYield 0.21733922
lastDividendValue 0.656
lastDividendDate 2026-03-25
dividendDate 2026-04-06

Info Dump

Attribute Value
52 Week Change -0.13974988
Address1 Rua Paraíba, No. 330
Address2 17th floor Funcionários
All Time High 34.87
All Time Low 8.73
Ask 15.9
Ask Size 1
Average Analyst Rating 3.6 - Underperform
Average Daily Volume10 Day 92,770
Average Daily Volume3 Month 108,831
Average Volume 108,831
Average Volume10Days 92,770
Beta 0.513
Bid 15.78
Bid Size 1
Book Value 10.828373
City Belo Horizonte
Country Brazil
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Current Price 15.82
Current Ratio 2.197
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Date Short Interest 1,774,915,200
Day High 16.11
Day Low 15.82
Debt To Equity 63.788
Display Name Afya
Dividend Date 1,775,433,600
Dividend Rate 0.66
Dividend Yield 4.14
Earnings Call Timestamp End 1,778,187,600
Earnings Call Timestamp Start 1,778,187,600
Earnings Growth 0.152
Earnings Quarterly Growth 0.154
Earnings Timestamp 1,778,184,000
Earnings Timestamp End 1,778,184,000
Earnings Timestamp Start 1,778,184,000
Ebitda 1,466,865,024
Ebitda Margins 0.39674
Enterprise To Ebitda 2.356
Enterprise To Revenue 0.935
Enterprise Value 3,455,727,616
Eps Current Year 9.63093
Eps Forward 2.1635711
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 1.65
Esg Populated 0
Ex Dividend Date 1,774,396,800
Exchange NMS
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 14.5794
Fifty Day Average Change 1.2405996
Fifty Day Average Change Percent 0.08509264
Fifty Two Week Change Percent -13.974989
Fifty Two Week High 19.9
Fifty Two Week High Change -4.08
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.20502512
Fifty Two Week Low 13.0
Fifty Two Week Low Change 2.8199997
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.21692306
Fifty Two Week Range 13.0 - 19.9
Financial Currency BRL
First Trade Date Milliseconds 1,563,543,000,000
Float Shares 7,229,855
Forward Eps 2.1635711
Forward P E 7.311985
Free Cashflow 408,426,880
Full Exchange Name NasdaqGS
Full Time Employees 9,395
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Gross Margins 0.64462996
Gross Profits 2,383,360,000
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Held Percent Insiders 0.66165
Held Percent Institutions 0.20162001
Implied Shares Outstanding 89,867,682
Industry Education & Training Services
Industry Disp Education & Training Services
Industry Key education-training-services
Is Earnings Date Estimate 0
Language en-US
Last Dividend Date 1,774,396,800
Last Dividend Value 0.656
Last Fiscal Year End 1,767,139,200
Long Business Summary Afya Limited operates as a medical education group in Brazil. The company operates in three segments: Undergraduate, Continuing Education, and Medical Practice Solutions. The Undergraduate segment offers educational services through undergraduate courses related to medical school, health sciences, and other non-health undergraduate programs, including medicine, dentistry, nursing, radiology, psychology, pharmacy, physical education, physiotherapy, nutrition, biomedicine, business administration, accounting, law, civil and industrial engineering, and pedagogy. The Continuing Education segment provides medical education, including residency preparation programs, specialization test preparation, graduate courses in medicine, and digital and in-person professional development for physicians and medical students. The Medical Practice Solutions segment offers clinical decision support platforms, medical practice management software, healthcare financial services, and digital healthcare ecosystem solutions, such as electronic medical records, practice management tools, telemedicine, digital prescriptions, and doctor-patient relationship platforms. This segment also provides a subscription-based mobile app and website portal that focuses on assisting health professionals and students with clinical decision-making through tools, such as medical calculators, charts, and updated content, as well as prescriptions, clinical scores, medical procedures and laboratory exams, and others. The company also offers educational health and medical imaging; and other programs to lifelong medical learners enrolled across its distribution network, as well as to third-party medical schools. In addition, it offers printed and digital content, as well as an online medical education platform and physicians, healthcare professionals and students. Afya Limited was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Long Name Afya Limited
Market us_market
Market Cap 1,421,706,624
Market State PRE
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_625699924
Most Recent Quarter 1,767,139,200
Net Income To Common 752,460,992
Next Fiscal Year End 1,798,675,200
Non Diluted Market Cap 1,425,301,420
Number Of Analyst Opinions 9
Open 15.92
Operating Cashflow 1,531,586,944
Operating Margins 0.30743
Payout Ratio 0.16219999
Phone 55 31 3515 7550
Pre Market Change 0.030000687
Pre Market Change Percent 0.18963772
Pre Market Price 15.85
Pre Market Time 1,776,758,400
Previous Close 15.86
Price Eps Current Year 1.6426243
Price Hint 2
Price To Book 1.4609766
Price To Sales Trailing12 Months 0.38453034
Profit Margins 0.20352
Quick Ratio 2.126
Quote Source Name Nasdaq Real Time Price
Quote Type EQUITY
Recommendation Key underperform
Recommendation Mean 3.55556
Region US
Regular Market Change 15.82
Regular Market Change Percent -0.252207
Regular Market Day High 16.11
Regular Market Day Low 15.82
Regular Market Day Range 15.82 - 16.11
Regular Market Open 15.92
Regular Market Previous Close 15.86
Regular Market Price 15.82
Regular Market Time 1,776,715,201
Regular Market Volume 51,648
Return On Assets 0.08356
Return On Equity 0.16702
Revenue Growth 0.075
Revenue Per Share 40.865
Sand P52 Week Change 0.34445214
Sector Consumer Defensive
Sector Disp Consumer Defensive
Sector Key consumer-defensive
Shares Outstanding 51,293,547
Shares Percent Shares Out 0.006
Shares Short 541,994
Shares Short Previous Month Date 1,772,150,400
Shares Short Prior Month 569,304
Short Name Afya Limited
Short Percent Of Float 0.0865
Short Ratio 4.93
Source Interval 15
State MG
Symbol AFYA
Target High Price 23.073769
Target Low Price 16.72201
Target Mean Price 17.96489
Target Median Price 17.262312
Total Cash 1,125,380,992
Total Cash Per Share 12.523
Total Debt 3,120,013,056
Total Revenue 3,697,254,912
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 3.447
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.21733922
Trailing Eps 1.65
Trailing P E 9.587879
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 14.8619
Two Hundred Day Average Change 0.95809937
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.06446681
Type Disp Equity
Volume 51,648
Website https://www.afya.com.br
Zip 30,130-917