The oil company has added a new feature that allows trading stocks from its app during market hours
Now, in addition to those tools, users can directly invest in shares of the oil company from the app. The company linked this decision to the goal of increasing the participation of small investors in the capital markets.
“We want more and more Argentines to be part of YPF's growth. The stock split is a concrete step to bring the capital market closer and make investment in the company more accessible,” stated YPF's president, Horacio Marín.
The launch of this new feature also comes after YPF released its results for the second quarter of 2026. During that period, the company achieved an adjusted EBITDA of USD 2.804 billion, the highest in its history.
The oil company also reported a net income of USD 1.205 billion, which was the second highest in its records. Quarterly revenues reached USD 6.574 billion, 33% higher than those recorded in the previous quarter. The operating margin reached 43% on sales.
Another highlighted indicator by the company was the evolution of its debt. Net debt was reduced to USD 7.654 billion, while the leverage ratio fell to 1.09 times, the lowest level recorded by YPF in 11 years.
During the same quarter, Fitch, S&P, and Moody’s raised the company's credit rating, according to data reported by YPF.
Regarding free cash flow, the company recorded USD 824 million during the period. Excluding the payment related to Equinor's assets in Vaca Muerta, that flow would have reached USD 1 billion.
YPF enabled the buying and selling of its own shares directly from its app starting this Tuesday, in a new feature aimed at facilitating access for small investors to the oil company's capital.
In this way, the company became the first company in the world to offer this type of operation within its own application.
The new tool operates during market hours, from 10:30 AM to 5 PM, and was introduced through a partnership between YPF and Santander, the entity that manages the funds of the platform's users.
The launch comes two weeks after the 10-for-1 stock split carried out by the oil company on its local shares. The goal of that operation was to reduce the individual price of each share and facilitate trading of the asset in the local market, without altering the total value of shareholders' holdings.
With the split, each investor ended up with ten shares for every one they previously owned, while the price of each share was adjusted in the same proportion. Thus, the split did not change the invested money, the percentage of each shareholder's participation in YPF, nor the political rights associated with their holdings.
Each share retained one vote, and according to the company, the mechanism also did not alter the equity of the shareholders. The operation was conducted on the local paper identified with the ticker $YPFD.
The incorporation of stock trading expands the available options within the YPF app. The platform already allowed its users to fund balances, earn a return on that money, make payments at gas stations, transfer funds, pay services, and top up accounts.
