This trade activity should not be overlooked: Vista Energy S.A.B. de C.V ADR (VIST)

With 0.84 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.99 million shares. During the session, the Oil & Gas E&P company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $57.295 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $55.36. The 52-week range on VIST shows that it touched its highest point at $59.47 and its lowest point at $28.82 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $68.94. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.71.

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 VIST was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.40%, but this was up by 2.02% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 18.38% while six-month performance rose 20.73%. The stock gained 85.64% in the past year, while it has gained 4.40% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VIST yields 5.16 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.16. For the next quarter, that number is 1.18. This implies an EPS growth rate of 29.92% for this year and 13.67% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 95.20 million VIST shares are outstanding with a float of 94.13 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 1.63 million, which was 171.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Miguel Matias Galuccio as the firm’s Founder, Chairman & CEO, Mr. Pablo Manuel Vera Pinto serves as its Co-Founder & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.63786 of VIST’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, VIST reported revenue of $462383000.0 and operating income of $187300000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $312707000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.662.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VIST since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 VIST analysts setting a high price target of 1611.8 and a low target of 1213.308, the average target price over the next 12 months is 1408.1936. Based on these targets, VIST could surge 2753.25% to reach the target high and rise by 2047.83% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 2392.82% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $6.2789 being high and $4.55668 being low. For VIST, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.41779. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $25.88 and the low estimate is $25.88. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $25.88.