Are Smart Investors Making the Right Decision? Vacasa Inc (VCSA)

With 0.56 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.1 million shares. During the session, the Software – Application company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $4.905 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $4.75. The 52-week range on VCSA shows that it touched its highest point at $11.70 and its lowest point at $2.07 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $2.50. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.75.

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 VCSA was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 42.82%, but this was up by 27.82% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 81.04% while six-month performance rose 8.46%. The stock lost -38.35% in the past year, while it has lost -0.61% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VCSA yields -8.28 with Next year EPS estimates of -1.85. For the next quarter, that number is -2.90. This implies an EPS growth rate of 75.55% for this year and 69.07% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 15.82 million VCSA shares are outstanding with a float of 8.72 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 0.65 million, which was 413.99999999999994 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Robert Greyber as the firm’s CEO, Interim Chief Product Officer & Director, Mr. Bruce Schuman serves as its CFO, CAO & Principal Accounting Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.70615 of VCSA’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, VCSA reported revenue of $314048000.0 and operating income of $54587000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $67882000.0 and diluted EPS was $2.1.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VCSA since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 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 VCSA analysts setting a high price target of 3.25 and a low target of 2.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 2.875. Based on these targets, VCSA could drop -33.26% to reach the target high and fall by -48.67% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -40.97% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$5.54955 being high and -$6.40992 being low. For VCSA, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$5.985.