With 2.01 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.21 million shares. During the session, the Capital Markets company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $32.33 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $29.82. The 52-week range on VIRT shows that it touched its highest point at $33.55 and its lowest point at $16.02 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $31.78. With its current market cap of 2.69 billion, VIRT has annualized dividend of $0.96 while the current yield stands at 3.11%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.37.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of VIRT was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -6.03%, but this was up by 0.69% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 10.33% while six-month performance rose 37.77%. The stock gained 68.08% in the past year, while it has gained 52.32% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VIRT yields 1.98 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.10. For the next quarter, that number is 0.78. This implies an EPS growth rate of 68.08% for this year and -0.02% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 25.30% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -12.55%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 89.09 million VIRT shares are outstanding with a float of 82.08 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-09-30, short shares totaled 2.05 million, which was 235.0 higher than short shares on 1724976000. In addition to Mr. Douglas A. Cifu J.D. as the firm’s Co-founder, CEO & Director, Mr. Joseph A. Molluso serves as its Co-President & Co-COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.90385 of VIRT’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-06-30, VIRT reported revenue of $692985000.0 and operating income of $326863000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $330815000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.71.
