In today’s recent session, 1.92 million shares of the Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) have been traded, and its beta is 1.19. Most recently the company’s share price was $137.18, and it changed around $6.6 or 5.05% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $46.66B. VST at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $199.84, offering almost -45.68% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $64.26, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 53.16% since then. We note from Vistra Corp’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 8.18 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 8.74 million.
Vistra Corp stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.44. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 1 out of 17 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 5 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 1 recommended VST as a Hold, whereas 10 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Vistra Corp is expected to report earnings per share of 1.31 for the current quarter.
Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) trade information
Instantly VST has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 5.05% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 137.08 on recent trading daydecreased the stock’s daily price by -0.07%. The company’s shares are currently down -0.50% year-to-date, but still up 8.62% over the last five days. On the other hand, Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) is -8.81% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 6.9 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 0.72 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $130.5, which translates to bulls needing to decrease their stock price by -5.12% from its current value. Analyst projections state that VST is forecast to be at a low of $120 and a high of $141.
Vistra Corp (VST) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 18.21%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 1 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 5.8B in revenue for the current quarter. 1 analysts expect Vistra Corp to make 4.18B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 3.05B and 3.85B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 90.02%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 8.77%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 30.39%. Vistra Corp earnings are expected to increase by -6.41% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 7.29% per year for the next five years.
VST Dividends
Vistra Corp’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Feb-26. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 0.64 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.88. It is important to note, however, that the 0.64% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 2.41 per year.
Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.69% of Vistra Corp shares, and 86.48% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 87.09%. Vistra Corp stock is held by 1442.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 12.3719% of the shares, which is about 43.17 million shares worth $3.71 billion.
BLACKROCK INC., with 7.7832% or 27.16 million shares worth $2.34 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Dec 31, 2024. The former held 10.66 shares worth $1.47 billion, making up 3.13% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard 500 Index Fund held roughly 9.21 shares worth around $1.27 billion, which represents about 2.71% of the total shares outstanding.
