In the latest trading session, 2.38 million Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.20. With the company’s most recent per share price at $177.82 changing hands around $7.31 or 4.29% at last look, the market valuation stands at $60.50B. VST’s last price was a premium, traded about 1.59% off its 52-week high of $175.00. The share price had its 52-week low at $38.95, which suggests the last value was 78.1% up since then. When we look at Vistra Corp’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 6.6 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 5.80 million.
Analysts gave the Vistra Corp (VST) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.53. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 6 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended VST as a Hold, 6 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) trade information
Instantly VST is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 8.84%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 28.98%, with the 5-day performance at 8.84% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) is 22.57% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 9.5 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.03 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 134.5, meaning bulls need a downside of -32.21% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, VST’s forecast low is 125 with 141 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a 20.71% surge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 29.7% for it to hit the projected low.
Vistra Corp (VST) estimates and forecasts
Data shows that the Vistra Corp share is performing relatively much better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 107.08% over the past 6 months, a 24.79% in annual growth rate that is considerably higher than the industry average of 4.70%.
The 2025 estimates are for Vistra Corp earnings to increase by 32.27%.
VST Dividends
Vistra Corp is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in February. The 0.49% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.87. It is important to note, however, that the 0.49% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 2.47 per year.
Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.62% of Vistra Corp shares while 89.96% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 90.52%. There are 89.96% institutions holding the Vistra Corp stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 12.3719% of the shares, roughly 43.17 million VST shares worth $3.71 billion.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 7.7832% or 27.16 million shares worth $2.34 billion as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Sep 30, 2024 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund. With 10.93 shares estimated at $1.93 billion under it, the former controlled 3.21% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard 500 Index Fund held about 2.64% of the shares, roughly 9.0 shares worth around $1.59 billion.
