With 0.71 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 $53.285 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $51.77. The 52-week range on VIST shows that it touched its highest point at $61.67 and its lowest point at $30.46 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $69.39. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.70.
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 down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.35%, but this was down by -2.42% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 4.14% while six-month performance rose 23.13%. The stock gained 61.17% in the past year, while it has lost -2.42% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VIST yields 5.16 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.81. For the next quarter, that number is 1.08. This implies an EPS growth rate of 27.26% for this year and 9.44% 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 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 1.81 million, which was 191.0 higher than short shares on 1734048000. 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 0.62588 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 79.299866 and a low target of 59.69423, the average target price over the next 12 months is 70.32986. Based on these targets, VIST could surge 50.19% to reach the target high and rise by 13.06% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 33.2% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $5.91696 being high and $4.69658 being low. For VIST, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.30677. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $24.02 and the low estimate is $24.02. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $24.02.
