Why Should You Add Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp (VAC) To Your Portfolio?

Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp (NYSE:VAC) has a beta value of 1.45 and has seen 0.37 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $1.88B, closed the recent trade at $54.33 per share which meant it gained $1.28 on the day or 2.41% during that session. The VAC stock price is -90.52% off its 52-week high price of $103.51 and 9.41% above the 52-week low of $49.22. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 0.61 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 557.19K shares.

The consensus among analysts is that Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp (VAC) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.09. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 2 out of 6 have rated it as a Hold, with 4 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 1.43.

Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp (NYSE:VAC) trade information

Sporting 2.41% in the green today, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the VAC stock price touched $54.33 or saw a rise of 4.5%. Year-to-date, Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp shares have moved -39.50%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 2.47%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp (NYSE:VAC) have changed -19.12%. Short interest in the company has seen 1.5 million shares shorted with days to cover at 2.55.

Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $97, which means that the shares’ value could jump 43.99% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $97.0 while the price target rests at a high of $97.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -78.54% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -78.54% from the levels at last check today..

Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp (VAC) estimates and forecasts

The company’s shares have lost -31.54% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 3.29%.

8 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 1.21B for the current quarter. 8 have an estimated revenue figure of 1.25B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 1.2B and 1.14B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 1.02% for the current quarter and 3.29% for the next.

If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 12.67% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 0.07% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 4.24%.

VAC Dividends

Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Feb-25 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 3.10 at a share yield of 5.71%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 1.52%.

Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp (NYSE:VAC)’s Major holders

Insiders own 8.55% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 86.23% with a share float percentage of 94.30%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp having a total of 451.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 3.24 million shares worth more than $283.05 million. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 9.1569% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 3.21 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $280.48 million and represent 9.0737% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are UNDISCOVERED MANAGERS Fd.S-Undiscovered Managers Behavioral Value Fd. and iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF . As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager holds about 3.47% shares in the company for having 1.2 shares of worth $65.05 million while later fund manager owns 1.05 shares of worth $56.78 million as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 3.03% of company’s outstanding stock.