During the last session, Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE)’s traded shares were 0.75 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 2.83. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $21.56, reflecting an intraday loss of -2.58% or -$0.57. The 52-week high for the VTLE share is $58.30, that puts it down -170.41 from that peak though still a striking 7.93% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $19.85. The company’s market capitalization is $821.90M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 1.02 million shares, and the average trade volume was 1.05 million shares over the past three months.
Vital Energy Inc (VTLE) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.53. VTLE has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 4 analysts who have looked at this stock. 2 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 2 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 2.03.
Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE) trade information
Vital Energy Inc (VTLE) registered a -2.58% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -2.58% in intraday trading to $21.56, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -2.49%, and it has moved by -19.79% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -56.52%. The short interest in Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE) is 5.64 million shares and it means that shorts have 3.69 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $37.5, which implies an increase of 42.51% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $27 and $48 respectively. As a result, VTLE is trading at a discount of -122.63% off the target high and -25.23% off the low.
Vital Energy Inc (VTLE) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 8.36% compared to the previous financial year.
As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 533.95M as predicted by 6 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 6 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 525.98M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 482.34M and 476.37M respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 10.70% and then jump by 10.41% in the coming quarter.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 30.67%. While earnings are projected to return 14.57% in 2025, the next five years will return -4.61% per annum.
VTLE Dividends
Vital Energy Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Feb-18. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE)’s Major holders
Vital Energy Inc insiders own 22.24% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 78.92%, with the float percentage being 101.50%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 317.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 4.27 million shares (or 11.7356% of all shares), a total value of $191.36 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 1.9 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 5.2118% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $84.98 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Vital Energy Inc (VTLE) shares are iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Feb 28, 2025 indicates that iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF owns about 1.73 shares. This amounts to just over 4.53 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $37.23 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 966.7, or about 2.54% of the stock, which is worth about $20.84 million.
