With 0.97 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.13 million shares. During the session, the Farm Products company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $40.35 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $38.0. The 52-week range on VITL shows that it touched its highest point at $48.41 and its lowest point at $14.16 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $44.17. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.88.
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 VITL was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.23%, but this was up by 12.62% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 6.14% while six-month performance fell -15.81%. The stock gained 150.65% in the past year, while it has gained 2.28% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VITL yields 1.12 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.22. For the next quarter, that number is 0.16. This implies an EPS growth rate of 88.88% for this year and 9.07% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 43.71 million VITL shares are outstanding with a float of 32.10 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 7.44 million, which was 1700.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Matthew O’Hayer as the firm’s Founder & Executive Chairman, Mr. Russell Diez-Canseco serves as its President, CEO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.89616996 of VITL’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 2024-09-29, VITL reported revenue of $145002000.0 and operating income of $9240000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $10641000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.16.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VITL since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 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 VITL analysts setting a high price target of 50.0 and a low target of 34.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 44.16667. Based on these targets, VITL could surge 29.7% to reach the target high and fall by -11.8% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 14.57% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.14454 being high and $1.0843 being low. For VITL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.11442.
