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Afya Limited Class A Company Profile

NASDAQ: AFYAReal EstateOther Consumer ServicesUSD

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Afya at a glance

Afya Limited Class A (NASDAQ: AFYA) is a Other Consumer Services company in the Real Estate sector headquartered in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. Afya is led by Mr. Virgílio Deloy Capobianco Gibbon and employs about 9,395 people. The company's shares have traded publicly since 2019.

At a market capitalization of $1.23 billion, it is considered a small-cap company. Its SEC Central Index Key (CIK) is 0001771007, which identifies the company's filings on EDGAR.

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What does Afya do?

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.

Business description based on the company's public filings.

Company information

Legal name
Afya Limited Class A
Ticker
NASDAQ: AFYA
Industry
Other Consumer Services
CEO
Mr. Virgílio Deloy Capobianco Gibbon
Employees
9,395
Headquarters
Rua Paraíba, No. 330, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Phone
55 31 3515 7550
IPO year
2019
SEC CIK
0001771007

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