Taking on analysts’ expectations and winning: Vermilion Energy Inc (VET)

With 0.92 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.16 million shares. During the session, the Oil & Gas E&P company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $9.19 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $8.835. The 52-week range on VET shows that it touched its highest point at $12.94 and its lowest point at $8.22 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $12.46. With its current market cap of 1.41 billion, VET has annualized dividend of $0.34 while the current yield stands at 3.74%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.02.

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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 VET was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.22%, but this was down by -14.69% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -6.56% while six-month performance fell -18.28%. The stock lost -27.16% in the past year, while it has lost -24.38% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VET yields -3.73 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.50. For the next quarter, that number is 0.45. This implies an EPS growth rate of 122.05% for this year and 111.13% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 155.35 million VET shares are outstanding with a float of 153.54 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-01-31, short shares totaled 2.69 million, which was 283.99998 higher than short shares on 1680220800. In addition to Mr. Anthony Hatcher P.Eng. as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Lars William Glemser serves as its VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.45816 of VET’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, VET reported revenue of $504553000.0 and operating income of $54353000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $232363000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.33.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VET since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.40951 being high and $0.20476 being low. For VET, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.30714. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.