Vicor Corp (NASDAQ: VICR): Can A Stock Be 11.01% Higher Year-To-Date And Still Be A Loser?

Vicor Corp (NASDAQ:VICR)’s traded shares stood at 0.39 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.71. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $53.64, to imply an increase of 1.28% or $0.68 in intraday trading. The VICR share’s 52-week high remains $65.70, putting it -22.48% down since that peak but still an impressive 42.39% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $30.90. The company has a valuation of $2.42B, with an average of 0.31 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 269.95K shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Vicor Corp (VICR), translating to a mean rating of 2.33. Of 8 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give VICR a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 3 advise Hold as 5 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 0.29.

Vicor Corp (NASDAQ:VICR) trade information

After registering a 1.28% upside in the last session, Vicor Corp (VICR) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -0.04%, and 3.43% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 11.01%. Short interest in Vicor Corp (NASDAQ:VICR) saw shorts transact 1.59 million shares and set a 5.26 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $43 and $43 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, VICR has been trading 19.84% off suggested target high and 19.84% from its likely low.

Vicor Corp (VICR) estimates and forecasts

The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 15.20% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 3 analysts is 96.63M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 3 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 101.53M.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 83.87M and 85.85M respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 15.22% before jumping 18.26% in the following quarter.

VICR Dividends

Vicor Corp has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-19. 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. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 2.08%.

Vicor Corp (NASDAQ:VICR)’s Major holders

Vicor Corp insiders hold 31.00% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 59.98% of the shares at 86.92% float percentage. In total, 59.98% institutions holds shares in the company, led by BLACKROCK INC.. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 3.4 million shares (or 7.6285% of shares), all amounting to roughly $112.61 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 2.47 million shares, or about 5.5546% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $81.99 million.

We also have iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Vicor Corp (VICR) shares. Going by data provided on Jan 31, 2025 , iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF holds roughly 1.48 shares. This is just over 4.43% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $79.42 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 714.64, or 2.14% of the shares, all valued at about 38.33 million.