In recent trading session, Viatris Inc (NASDAQ:VTRS) saw 2.06 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.89. Company’s recent per share price level of $7.97 trading at -$0.06 or -0.76% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $9.51B. That most recent trading price of VTRS’s stock is at a discount of -70.01% from its 52-week high price of $13.55 and is indicating a premium of 14.05% from its 52-week low price of $6.85. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 12.57 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 14.46 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Viatris Inc (VTRS), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Hold while assigning it a mean rating of 2.45. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 5 analysts covering the stock, 1 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 3 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 1 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.51 in the current quarter.
Viatris Inc (NASDAQ:VTRS) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.76%, in the last five days VTRS remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 04/24/25 when the stock touched $7.97 price level, adding 1.97% to its value on the day. Viatris Inc’s shares saw a change of -35.99% in year-to-date performance and have moved 5.41% in past 5-day. Viatris Inc (NASDAQ:VTRS) showed a performance of -11.06% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 44.82 million shares which calculate 2.44 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 14 to the stock, which implies a rise of 43.07% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 12 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 15. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -50.56% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -50.56% for stock’s current value.
Viatris Inc (VTRS) estimates and forecasts
This year revenue growth is estimated to fall -6.42% from the last financial year’s standing.
4 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 3.3B for the same. And 4 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 3.47B in the next quarter. Company posted 3.66B and 3.8B of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -16.33% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 0.58%.
VTRS Dividends
Viatris Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-26 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 6.02%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.48 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 0.89%.
Viatris Inc (NASDAQ:VTRS)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.50% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 86.00 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 86.43%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 86.00% institutions for Viatris Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at VTRS for having 140.32 million shares of worth $1.49 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 11.7809 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 92.67 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.78 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $985.06 million.
On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Pacer Funds Trust-Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 37.38 shares of worth $299.6 million or 3.13% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 34.73 shares on Jan 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $278.37 million in the company or a holder of 2.91% of company’s stock.
