With 6.91 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 5.98 million shares. During the session, the Utilities – Independent Power Producers company that operates in wider Utilities sector, reached to the highest price of $162.97 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $152.61. The 52-week range on VST shows that it touched its highest point at $168.67 and its lowest point at $38.08 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $171.06. With its current market cap of 54.71 billion, VST has annualized dividend of $0.87 while the current yield stands at 0.54%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.22.
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 VST was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 16.64%, but this was up by 0.52% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 25.67% while six-month performance rose 74.21%. The stock gained 310.86% in the past year, while it has gained 16.64% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VST yields 5.28 with Next year EPS estimates of 7.12. For the next quarter, that number is 1.42. This implies an EPS growth rate of 32.27% for this year and 47.18% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 340.72 million VST shares are outstanding with a float of 335.11 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 7.25 million, which was 213.00000999999997 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. James A. Burke CPA as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Kristopher E. Moldovan serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.89844 of VST’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, VST reported revenue of $6288000000.0 and operating income of $2588000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $3140000000.0 and diluted EPS was $5.541248.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VST since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 6 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 VST analysts setting a high price target of 231.0 and a low target of 52.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 161.464. Based on these targets, VST could surge 43.65% to reach the target high and fall by -67.66% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 0.41% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $5.54968 being high and $4.13138 being low. For VST, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.83512. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.27 and the low estimate is $1.27. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.27.
