With 1.09 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.88 million shares. During the session, the Capital Markets company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $37.6203 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $36.65. The 52-week range on VIRT shows that it touched its highest point at $41.38 and its lowest point at $16.41 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $42.11. With its current market cap of 5.69 billion, VIRT has annualized dividend of $0.96 while the current yield stands at 2.61%. VIRT paid its most recent dividend on 1732838400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1732838400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.55.
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 VIRT was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -10.11%, but this was up by 7.63% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 7.69% while six-month performance rose 27.76%. The stock gained 121.27% in the past year, while it has gained 3.20% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VIRT yields 2.98 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.88. For the next quarter, that number is 1.01. This implies an EPS growth rate of 4.58% for this year and 4.47% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 85.95 million VIRT shares are outstanding with a float of 80.54 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 2.93 million, which was 340.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Douglas A. Cifu J.D. as the firm’s Co-founder, CEO & Director, Mr. Joseph A. Molluso serves as its Co-President & Co-COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.88496 of VIRT’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, VIRT reported revenue of $706840000.0 and operating income of $309575000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $336142000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.64.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VIRT since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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 VIRT analysts setting a high price target of 56.0 and a low target of 33.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 42.11111. Based on these targets, VIRT could surge 52.09% to reach the target high and fall by -10.37% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 14.37% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.35685 being high and $3.21657 being low. For VIRT, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.30675. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.12 and the low estimate is $0.83. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.93.
