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Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. (AVAL)

Financial Services

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Fundamental
3
Sentiment
3
Technical
4

Do Nothing: AVAL fails the liquidity rules—avgDollarVolume20 is about $0.88M versus the $5.0M floor, and the recent 3-session regular-session average is about $0.96M versus the $1.5M floor.

Analysis as of 2026-08-22· more than 2 trading days ago

Company overview

Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores SA provides financial services and products through segments including Banking Services, Merchant Banking, Pension and Severance Fund Management, and Holding. The company operates in sectors such as banking, gas and energy, infrastructure, and agribusiness. Founded in 1994, it is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.

Fundamental

fair
Fundamental3
Mixed fundamentals

Grupo Aval's fundamentals show reasonable valuation but uneven profitability and significant Colombia/FX risk.

Grupo Aval’s latest annual filing highlights the usual bank risks (country macro/politics, credit losses, regulation) but also points to improving 2025 credit quality versus 2024, with no explicit going-concern warning identified. Valuation is reasonable (P/E ~11.5) and profitability is moderate (ROE ~9–10%), yet earnings power has been volatile versus earlier years and Colombia/FX risk remains a key overhang—overall a mixed, monitor-not-chase setup.

Sentiment

fair
Sentiment3
Modestly constructive

Media sentiment is modestly constructive, but no strong retail or catalyst signals are present.

With no GlobeNewswire PR coverage in the last 30 days, the near-term narrative is set mainly by aggregator coverage of the Aug-13 Q2 results, which reads modestly constructive (14d polarity_score ≈ +0.21) on YoY profit growth but repeatedly flags macro/guidance caution. Sentiment is cooler than the 30–90d baseline (≈ +0.37), while the 90-day legal/investigation screen surfaced no active overhangs.

Technical

good
Technical4
Bullish trend, low liquidity

The stock shows a bullish trend but lacks sufficient liquidity for actionable trades.

Trend and momentum are bullish—price is above SMA20/50/200 and EMA9/21, MACD is positive above signal, RSI is 59.35, and ADX is 55.26—but short-term acceleration has paused just below 5.55-5.58 resistance and liquidity is far too light for an executable 1-15 day swing trade.

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