Vital Farms Inc (NASDAQ:VITL)’s traded shares stood at 1.05 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.98. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $29.52, to imply a decrease of -0.14% or -$0.04 in intraday trading. The VITL share’s 52-week high remains $48.41, putting it -63.99% down since that peak but still an impressive 23.75% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $22.51. The company has a valuation of $1.31B, with an average of 1.13 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 1.19 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Hold for Vital Farms Inc (VITL), translating to a mean rating of 1.00. Of 4 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give VITL a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 3 advise Hold as 1 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.27.
Vital Farms Inc (NASDAQ:VITL) trade information
After registering a -0.14% downside in the last session, Vital Farms Inc (VITL) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 0.68%, and -16.56% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -21.68%. Short interest in Vital Farms Inc (NASDAQ:VITL) saw shorts transact 6.19 million shares and set a 4.58 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $41 and $41 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, VITL has been trading -38.89% off suggested target high and -38.89% from its likely low.
Vital Farms Inc (VITL) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 22.20% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 8 analysts is 164.8M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 8 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 172.64M.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 147.93M and 147.39M respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 11.41% before jumping 17.13% in the following quarter.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 81.00% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 7.56% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 18.93% annually.
VITL Dividends
Vital Farms Inc has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-26. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.
Vital Farms Inc (NASDAQ:VITL)’s Major holders
Vital Farms Inc insiders hold 25.74% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 87.38% of the shares at 117.68% float percentage. In total, 87.38% institutions holds shares in the company, led by BLACKROCK INC.. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 3.73 million shares (or 8.9301% of shares), all amounting to roughly $174.55 million.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 2.1 million shares, or about 5.0336% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $98.39 million.
We also have Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Vital Farms Inc (VITL) shares. Going by data provided on Dec 31, 2024 , Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 1.02 shares. This is just over 2.30% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $30.02 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 890.86, or 2.01% of the shares, all valued at about 26.3 million.
