In today’s recent session, 0.61 million shares of the Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE) have been traded, and its beta is 2.83. Most recently the company’s share price was $21.28, and it changed around -$1.77 or -7.68% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $811.23M. VTLE at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $58.30, offering almost -173.97% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $22.12, which indicates that the recent value has fallen by an impressive -3.95% since then.
Vital Energy Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 2.53. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 13 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 1 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 6 recommended VTLE as a Hold, whereas 4 deemed it a Buy, and 2 rated it as Underweight. Vital Energy Inc is expected to report earnings per share of 2.09 for the current quarter.
Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE) trade information
Instantly VTLE has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -7.68% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 27.63 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 22.98%. The company’s shares are currently down -31.18% year-to-date, but still down -21.33% over the last five days. On the other hand, Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE) is -30.62% down in the 30-day period.
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $48, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 55.67% from its current value. Analyst projections state that VTLE is forecast to be at a low of $48 and a high of $48.
Vital Energy Inc (VTLE) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 7.97%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 7 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 528.38M in revenue for the current quarter. 7 analysts expect Vital Energy Inc to make 521.37M in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 482.34M and 476.37M respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 9.54%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 9.45%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 30.67%. Vital Energy Inc earnings are expected to increase by 18.27% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 1.78% per year for the next five years.
Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE)’s Major holders
VANGUARD GROUP INC, with 5.2118% or 1.9 million shares worth $84.98 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Dec 31, 2024. The former held 1.74 shares worth $37.16 million, making up 4.57% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held roughly 870.26 shares worth around $18.58 million, which represents about 2.28% of the total shares outstanding.
