With 2.74 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.32 million shares. During the session, the Oil & Gas Equipment & Services company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $48.48 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $46.03. The 52-week range on VAL shows that it touched its highest point at $84.20 and its lowest point at $47.87 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $70.85. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.15.
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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 VAL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -7.86%, but this was down by -9.48% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -23.21% while six-month performance fell -40.08%. The stock lost -31.97% in the past year, while it has lost -32.32% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VAL yields 14.56 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.69. For the next quarter, that number is 1.13. This implies an EPS growth rate of -63.74% for this year and 34.37% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 72.40 million VAL shares are outstanding with a float of 64.71 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 8.77 million, which was 1233.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Christopher T. Weber as the firm’s Senior VP & CFO, Mr. Gilles Luca serves as its Senior VP & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.97494006 of VAL’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 2024-09-30, VAL reported revenue of $643100000.0 and operating income of $119300000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $145000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.88.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VAL since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With VAL analysts setting a high price target of 100.0 and a low target of 54.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 70.9. Based on these targets, VAL could surge 115.47% to reach the target high and rise by 16.35% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 52.77% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.45341 being high and $4.10984 being low. For VAL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.2383.
