In recent trading session, Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) saw 2.83 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.25. Company’s recent per share price level of $172.17 trading at -$4.13 or -2.34% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $58.58B. That most recent trading price of VST’s stock is at a discount of -16.07% from its 52-week high price of $199.84 and is indicating a premium of 76.31% from its 52-week low price of $40.78. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 12.46 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 7.12 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Vistra Corp (VST), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.61. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 6 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 6 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.4 in the current quarter.
Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -2.34%, in the last five days VST remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 01/30/25 when the stock touched $172.17 price level, adding 2.45% to its value on the day. Vistra Corp’s shares saw a change of 24.88% in year-to-date performance and have moved -9.91% in past 5-day. Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) showed a performance of 22.90% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 9.79 million shares which calculate 1.69 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 134.5 to the stock, which implies a fall of -28.01% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 125 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 141. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 27.4% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 27.4% for stock’s current value.
Vistra Corp (VST) estimates and forecasts
Statistics highlight that Vistra Corp is scoring comparatively higher than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company added 117.33% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of 94.99% while that of industry is 4.00. Apart from that, the company came raising its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2025. This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 16.82% from the last financial year’s standing.
3 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 3.9B for the same. And 2 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 4.24B in the next quarter. Company posted 3.08B and 3.05B of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
VST Dividends
Vistra Corp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report in February and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 0.51%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.87 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 2.47%.
Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.62% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 90.36 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 90.92%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 90.36% institutions for Vistra Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at VST for having 43.17 million shares of worth $3.71 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 12.3719 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 27.16 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.7832 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $2.34 billion.
On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Sep 30, 2024, the former fund manager was holding 10.93 shares of worth $1.9 billion or 3.21% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 9.0 shares on Sep 30, 2024, making its stake of worth around $1.57 billion in the company or a holder of 2.64% of company’s stock.
