In the last trading session, 1.21 million Vital Farms Inc (NASDAQ:VITL) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.98. With the company’s per share price at $30.94 changed hands at $1.62 or 5.53% during last session, the market valuation stood at $1.37B. VITL’s last price was a discount, traded about -56.46% off its 52-week high of $48.41. The share price had its 52-week low at $20.87, which suggests the last value was 32.55% up since then. When we look at Vital Farms Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.25 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.17 million.
Analysts gave the Vital Farms Inc (VITL) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 1.00. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 4 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 3 recommended VITL as a Hold, 1 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Vital Farms Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.27.
Vital Farms Inc (NASDAQ:VITL) trade information
Instantly VITL was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -6.58%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -17.91%, with the 5-day performance at -6.58% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Vital Farms Inc (NASDAQ:VITL) is -11.42% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 6.19 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 4.58 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 41, meaning bulls need an upside of 24.54% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, VITL’s forecast low is 41 with 41 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -32.51% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -32.51% for it to hit the projected low.
Vital Farms Inc (VITL) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 22.20% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 8 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 164.8M. 8 analysts are of the opinion that Vital Farms Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 172.64M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 147.93M and 147.39M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 11.41%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 17.13%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 81.00%. The 2025 estimates are for Vital Farms Inc earnings to increase by 7.52%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 18.93% per year.
VITL Dividends
Vital Farms Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-26.
Vital Farms Inc (NASDAQ:VITL)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 25.77% of Vital Farms Inc shares while 86.86% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 117.02%. There are 86.86% institutions holding the Vital Farms Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 8.9301% of the shares, roughly 3.73 million VITL shares worth $174.55 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 5.0336% or 2.1 million shares worth $98.39 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF . With 1.02 shares estimated at $31.46 million under it, the former controlled 2.30% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Russell 2000 ETF held about 2.01% of the shares, roughly 890.86 shares worth around $27.56 million.
