- Brazil's premier airline Azul has underperformed its cohort, the JETS airline ETF, by a whopping 39% since February 8, 2021.
- A primary cause has been the interference on the part of President Jair Bolsonaro in Petrobas, the state-owned oil company, instigating a 17% crash in Brazil's stock market.
- A secondary cause for the price drop in AZUL is the recent surge in infections and deaths attributed to the COVID pandemic.
- The political, social, and medical environment in Brazil is now extremely tenuous. Investors have fled the country's capital markets, leaving behind a deeply-discounted value opportunity for emerging-market investors.
- AZUL {3/5/2021} recently released a stellar earnings report - details below.
For further details see:
Azul: A Brazilian Diamond In The Rough