Victoria’s Secret & Co (NYSE: VSCO) Surprises Bears, Looks Strong Going Forward

In the last trading session, 5.66 million Victoria’s Secret & Co (NYSE:VSCO) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 2.36. With the company’s per share price at $20.06 changed hands at $1.49 or 8.02% during last session, the market valuation stood at $1.58B. VSCO’s last price was a discount, traded about -142.92% off its 52-week high of $48.73. The share price had its 52-week low at $15.12, which suggests the last value was 24.63% up since then. When we look at Victoria’s Secret & Co’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 8.09 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.90 million.

Analysts gave the Victoria’s Secret & Co (VSCO) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Sell, calculated at a mean rating of 2.82. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 3 out of 6 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended VSCO as a Hold, 2 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Victoria’s Secret & Co’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.02.

Victoria’s Secret & Co (NYSE:VSCO) trade information

Instantly VSCO was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 19.55%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -51.57%, with the 5-day performance at 19.55% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Victoria’s Secret & Co (NYSE:VSCO) is -38.24% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 6.86 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.33 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 33, meaning bulls need an upside of 39.21% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, VSCO’s forecast low is 25 with 35 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -74.48% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -24.63% for it to hit the projected low.

Victoria’s Secret & Co (VSCO) estimates and forecasts

Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 0.34% 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 1.32B. 8 analysts are of the opinion that Victoria’s Secret & Co’s revenue for the current quarter will be 1.42B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 1.36B and 1.42B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -2.74%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at -0.14%.

The 2025 estimates are for Victoria’s Secret & Co earnings to decrease by -12.91%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 3.94% per year.

VSCO Dividends

Victoria’s Secret & Co is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Mar-04.

Victoria’s Secret & Co (NYSE:VSCO)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 12.72% of Victoria’s Secret & Co shares while 92.64% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 106.14%. There are 92.64% institutions holding the Victoria’s Secret & Co stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 16.678% of the shares, roughly 13.01 million VSCO shares worth $229.87 million.

VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 11.3987% or 8.89 million shares worth $157.1 million as of 2024-06-30.