Vistra Corp (NYSE: VST): Can A Stock Be 256.18% Higher Year-To-Date And Still Be A Loser?

Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST)’s traded shares stood at 4.09 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.10. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $137.20, to imply an increase of 3.59% or $4.75 in intraday trading. The VST share’s 52-week high remains $135.30, putting it 1.38% up since that peak but still an impressive 77.29% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $31.16. The company has a valuation of $47.14B, with an average of 12.21 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 7.04 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Vistra Corp (VST), translating to a mean rating of 1.46. Of 6 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give VST a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 0 advise Hold as 6 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.99.

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Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) trade information

After registering a 3.59% upside in the latest session, Vistra Corp (VST) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 16.55%, and 80.93% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 256.18%. Short interest in Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) saw shorts transact 13.61 million shares and set a 2.81 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $116 and $141 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, VST has been trading -2.77% off suggested target high and 15.45% from its likely low.

Vistra Corp (VST) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing Vistra Corp share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has outperformed competitors. Vistra Corp (VST) shares are 82.13% up over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate higher than industry average at 30.92% against 5.10%. Revenue is forecast to shrink -20.80% this quarter before jumping 334.50% for the next one. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 15.20% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 2 analysts is 5.01B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 2 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 3.92B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 4.09B and 3.08B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 22.70% before jumping 27.20% in the following quarter.

VST Dividends

Vistra Corp has its next earnings report out on 2024-Nov-05. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Vistra Corp has a forward dividend ratio of 0.86, with the share yield ticking at 0.63% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 2.52%.

Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST)’s Major holders

Vistra Corp insiders hold 0.64% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 91.06% of the shares at 91.64% float percentage. In total, 91.06% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 43.17 million shares (or 12.3719% of shares), all amounting to roughly $3.71 billion.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 27.16 million shares, or about 7.7832% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $2.34 billion.