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AFYA
Afya Ltd
NASDAQ· Consumer Defensive· Education & Training Services· CUSIP G01125106
$14.91+0.07%Price as of Oct 23, 00:52 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Afya Ltd (AFYA) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Education & Training Services, part of the Consumer Defensive sector. It is headquartered in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and has 9,395 employees. The company is worth $1.32B and trades at 9.1x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 18.2x. Revenue was R$3.7B in fiscal 2025, up 11.9% from the year before. Net income was R$752.46M. The share price is 7.7% below its 52-week high of $16.16. It pays a dividend yielding 4.43%. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Renaissance Technologies, at $5.09M. In that quarter, 1 of them reduced the position. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $55.34K of its stock on the open market and bought none.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $1.32B
- P/E
- 9.1x
- Forward P/E
- 7.4x
- P/B
- 1.4x
- Dividend yield
- 4.43%
- Payout
- 40.24%
- EPS
- $1.64
- ROE
- 16.68%
- Profit margin
- 20.44%
- Revenue growth
- +5.70%
- Beta
- 0.37
- 52-week high
- $16.16
- 52-week low
- $11.62
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Revenue, debt and profit are in BRL, the currency the company reports in — not converted to dollars. Dividends are in dollars.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Price over time
▲ +2.7% over 5Y.
today you would have $880.80▼ -11.9%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 4 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $15.41 | $15.88 | $21.93 | $15.62 | |
| EPS | R$8.24 | R$6.93 | R$4.27 | R$4.12 | |
| Dividend yield | — | 1.51% | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 17.58% | 20.35% | 19.11% | 13.43% | 16.04% |
| ROE | 13.23% | 15.51% | 14.79% |
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$20.14
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$7.26
Earnings growing 0.0% a year plus a 4.4% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$29.82
Median P/E of 18.2 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
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Cash flow
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Operating
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Dividends
$3.31
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Consumer Defensive, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPCEDGEWELL PERSONAL CARE Co | $28.89 | — | 0.9x | 2.08% | -1.29% | $1.33B |
| TPBTurning Point Brands, Inc. | $66.87 | 27.9x | 3.1x | 0.48% | 17.57% | $1.34B |
| FLOFlowers Foods Inc | $6.42 | 21.4x | 1.0x | 7.79% | 4.01% | $1.36B |
| DOLEDole plc | $13.52 |
About the company
- 9,395
- Belo Horizonte, Brazil