During the last session, Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST)’s traded shares were 5.95 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.19. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $115.87, reflecting an intraday gain of 0.10% or $0.12. The 52-week high for the VST share is $199.84, that puts it down -72.47 from that peak though still a striking 44.54% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $64.26. The company’s market capitalization is $39.41B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 9.81 million shares, and the average trade volume was 9.54 million shares over the past three months.
Vistra Corp (VST) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.53. VST has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 6 analysts who have looked at this stock. 0 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 6 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 1.3.
Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) trade information
Vistra Corp (VST) registered a 0.10% upside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 0.10% in intraday trading to $115.87, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -1.82%, and it has moved by -6.90% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 69.85%. The short interest in Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) is 7.86 million shares and it means that shorts have 0.88 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $127, which implies an increase of 8.76% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $120 and $134 respectively. As a result, VST is trading at a discount of -15.65% off the target high and -3.56% off the low.
Vistra Corp (VST) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 21.97% 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 5.54B as predicted by 2 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 2 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 5.01B by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 3.05B and 3.85B respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 81.51% and then jump by 30.24% 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 30.39%. While earnings are projected to return -3.24% in 2025, the next five years will return 12.14% per annum.
VST Dividends
Vistra Corp is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Feb-26. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Vistra Corp is 0.88, with the dividend yield indicating at 0.76 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 2.37%.
Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST)’s Major holders
Vistra Corp insiders own 0.73% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 86.55%, with the float percentage being 87.19%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 1449.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 43.17 million shares (or 12.3719% of all shares), a total value of $3.71 billion in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 27.16 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 7.8262% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $2.34 billion.
