With 5.36 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 9.35 million shares. During the session, the Electrical Equipment & Parts company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $125.45 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $121.5. The 52-week range on VRT shows that it touched its highest point at $155.84 and its lowest point at $53.60 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $121.94. With its current market cap of 47.18 billion, VRT has annualized dividend of $0.14 while the current yield stands at 0.11%. VRT paid its most recent dividend on 1750032000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1750032000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.74.
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 VRT was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.96%, but this was up by 12.76% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 51.68% while six-month performance rose 3.13%. The stock gained 8.97% in the past year, while it has gained 38.88% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VRT yields 1.72 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.38. For the next quarter, that number is 0.83. This implies an EPS growth rate of 25.12% for this year and 22.83% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 381.00 million VRT shares are outstanding with a float of 373.31 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-06-13, short shares totaled 12.28 million, which was 322.0 higher than short shares on 1747267200. In addition to Mr. David M. Cote as the firm’s Executive Chairman of the Board, Mr. Giordano Albertazzi serves as its CEO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.81021005 of VRT’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 2025-03-31, VRT reported revenue of $2036000000.0 and operating income of $294400000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $366000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.42.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VRT since 12 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 10 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 VRT analysts setting a high price target of 150.0 and a low target of 82.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 119.13333. Based on these targets, VRT could surge 21.16% to reach the target high and fall by -33.76% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -3.77% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.70998 being high and $2.63057 being low. For VRT, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.6802.
