Investor Confidence Dwindles After Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE: VRT) Shares Drop By About -3.47

Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) has a beta value of 1.62 and has seen 1.35 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $48.14B, closed the recent trade at $128.27 per share which meant it lost -$3.47 on the day or -2.63% during that session. The VRT stock price is -13.57% off its 52-week high price of $145.67 and 68.03% above the 52-week low of $41.01. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 8.22 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 6.99 million shares.

The consensus among analysts is that Vertiv Holdings Co (VRT) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.00. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 2 out of 12 have rated it as a Hold, with 10 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 0.81.

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Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) trade information

Sporting -2.63% in the red today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the VRT stock price touched $128.27 or saw a rise of 11.94%. Year-to-date, Vertiv Holdings Co shares have moved 167.06%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -6.74%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) have changed 12.69%. Short interest in the company has seen 16.66 million shares shorted with days to cover at 2.55.

Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $115, which means that the shares’ value could drop -11.54% from the levels at last check today. The projected low price target is $15.0 while the price target rests at a high of $155.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -20.84% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 88.31% from the levels at last check today.

Vertiv Holdings Co (VRT) estimates and forecasts

Figures show that Vertiv Holdings Co shares have outperformed across the wider relevant industry. The company’s shares have gained 25.41% over the past 6 months, with this year growth rate of 51.98%, compared to 15.60% for the industry. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 13.92%.

14 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 2.15B for the current quarter. 7 have an estimated revenue figure of 1.93B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 1.87B and 1.64B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 15.45% for the current quarter and 13.92% for the next.

If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 82.85% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2024 is a modest 50.10% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 35.47%.

VRT Dividends

Vertiv Holdings Co is expected to release its next earnings report in December this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.10 at a share yield of 0.08%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months.

Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT)’s Major holders

Insiders own 0.91% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 87.33% with a share float percentage of 88.14%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Vertiv Holdings Co having a total of 1387.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are BLACKROCK INC. with over 34.13 million shares worth more than $2.95 billion. As of 2024-06-30, BLACKROCK INC. held 9.0024% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, with the holding of over 33.65 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $2.91 billion and represent 8.8747% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund. As of Jun 30, 2024, the former fund manager holds about 3.00% shares in the company for having 11.26 shares of worth $1.43 billion while later fund manager owns 7.55 shares of worth $955.12 million as of Sep 30, 2024, which makes it owner of about 2.01% of company’s outstanding stock.