In the last trading session, 1.13 million shares of the Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE) were traded, and its beta was 1.61. Most recently the company’s share price was $13.83, and it changed around $0.14 or 1.02% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $527.20M. VTLE currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $58.30, offering almost -321.55% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $12.30, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 11.06% since then. We note from Vital Energy Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 2.22 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.26 million.
Vital Energy Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 2.67. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 14 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 1 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 8 recommended VTLE as a Hold, whereas 3 deemed it a Buy, and 2 rated it as Underweight. Vital Energy Inc is expected to report earnings per share of 2.02 for the current quarter.
Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE) trade information
Instantly VTLE has showed a green trend with a performance of 1.02% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 16.01 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 13.62%. The company’s shares are currently down -55.27% year-to-date, but still down -2.19% over the last five days. On the other hand, Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE) is -34.83% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 5.52 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 4.15 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $27, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 48.78% from its current value. Analyst projections state that VTLE is forecast to be at a low of $27 and a high of $27.
Vital Energy Inc (VTLE) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 7.20%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 7 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 528.32M in revenue for the current quarter. 7 analysts expect Vital Energy Inc to make 517.24M in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 482.34M and 476.37M respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 9.53%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 8.58%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 30.67%. Vital Energy Inc earnings are expected to increase by 11.28% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 2.45% per year for the next five years.
VTLE Dividends
Vital Energy Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Feb-18.
Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 22.07% of Vital Energy Inc shares, and 77.74% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 99.75%. Vital Energy Inc stock is held by 318.0 institutions, with BLACKROCK INC. being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 11.7356% of the shares, which is about 4.27 million shares worth $191.36 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC, with 5.2118% or 1.9 million shares worth $84.98 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Mar 31, 2025 . The former held 1.67 shares worth $23.06 million, making up 4.31% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held roughly 966.7 shares worth around $13.37 million, which represents about 2.50% of the total shares outstanding.
