During the recent session, Vertex Energy Inc (NASDAQ:VTNR)’s traded shares were 0.55 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.44. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $0.41, reflecting an intraday gain of 0.67% or $0.01. The 52-week high for the VTNR share is $5.40, that puts it down -1217.07 from that peak though still a striking 4.88% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $0.39. The company’s market capitalization is $37.89M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 1.59 million shares, and the average trade volume was 2.35 million shares over the past three months.

Vertex Energy Inc (VTNR) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.33. VTNR has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 2 analysts who have looked at this stock. 1 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 1 recommend a Buy rating for it.

Vertex Energy Inc (NASDAQ:VTNR) trade information

Vertex Energy Inc (VTNR) registered a 0.67% upside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 0.67% in intraday trading to $0.41, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -5.06%, and it has moved by -45.26% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -90.66%. The short interest in Vertex Energy Inc (NASDAQ:VTNR) is 10.54 million shares and it means that shorts have 5.02 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $10.95, which implies an increase of 96.26% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $1.5 and $15 respectively. As a result, VTNR is trading at a discount of -3558.54% off the target high and -265.85% off the low.

Vertex Energy Inc (VTNR) estimates and forecasts

Statistics show that Vertex Energy Inc has outperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Vertex Energy Inc (VTNR) shares have gone down -69.99% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate more than the industry average at 51.02% against 19.50.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -45.16%. While earnings are projected to return 30.78% in 2024, the next five years will return 20.00% per annum.

VTNR Dividends

Vertex Energy Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2024-Nov-05. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

Vertex Energy Inc (NASDAQ:VTNR)’s Major holders

Vertex Energy Inc insiders own 9.44% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 33.10%, with the float percentage being 36.55%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 139.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 6.2 million shares (or 6.6254% of all shares), a total value of $5.85 million in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 4.12 million shares, is of QVT FINANCIAL LP’s that is approximately 4.4111% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $3.9 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Vertex Energy Inc (VTNR) shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF . Data provided on Mar 31, 2024 indicates that Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 2.65 shares. This amounts to just over 2.83 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $1.06 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 1.75, or about 1.87% of the stock, which is worth about $0.7 million.