Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) Shares Plunged -20.01% In A Week – But Can It Maintain Its Gains?

In recent trading session, Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) saw 2.51 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.63. Company’s recent per share price level of $117.04 trading at $2.44 or 2.13% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $43.93B. That most recent trading price of VRT’s stock is at a discount of -33.15% from its 52-week high price of $155.84 and is indicating a premium of 53.01% from its 52-week low price of $55.00. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 13.56 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 7.64 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Vertiv Holdings Co (VRT), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.39. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 12 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 2 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 10 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.

Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) trade information

Upright in the green today for gaining 2.13%, in the last five days VRT remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Monday, 01/27/25 when the stock touched $117.04 price level, adding 3.65% to its value on the day. Vertiv Holdings Co’s shares saw a change of 3.02% in year-to-date performance and have moved -20.01% in past 5-day. Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT) showed a performance of 0.76% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 13.61 million shares which calculate 2.53 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 123 to the stock, which implies a rise of 4.85% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 115 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 155. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 1.74% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 1.74% for stock’s current value.

Vertiv Holdings Co (VRT) estimates and forecasts

Statistics highlight that Vertiv Holdings Co is scoring comparatively higher than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company added 48.72% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of 52.54% while that of industry is 17.10. Apart from that, the company came raising its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2025.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 82.85% during past 5 years.

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

Insiders are in possession of 0.91% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 88.25 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 89.06%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 88.25% institutions for Vertiv Holdings Co that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at VRT for having 34.13 million shares of worth $2.95 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 9.0024 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 33.65 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 8.8747 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $2.91 billion.

On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Sep 30, 2024, the former fund manager was holding 11.28 shares of worth $1.33 billion or 3.01% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 7.55 shares on Sep 30, 2024, making its stake of worth around $890.67 million in the company or a holder of 2.01% of company’s stock.