VSE Corp (NASDAQ: VSEC): A Good Investment At Current Prices?

VSE Corp (NASDAQ:VSEC)’s traded shares stood at 0.32 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.26. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $122.51, to imply an increase of 4.67% or $5.46 in intraday trading. The VSEC share’s 52-week high remains $128.72, putting it -5.07% down since that peak but still an impressive 40.12% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $73.36. The company has a valuation of $2.53B, with an average of 0.21 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 256.83K shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for VSE Corp (VSEC), translating to a mean rating of 1.00. Of 4 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give VSEC a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 0 advise Hold as 4 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.56.

VSE Corp (NASDAQ:VSEC) trade information

After registering a 4.67% upside in the last session, VSE Corp (VSEC) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 7.53%, and -1.44% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 28.83%. Short interest in VSE Corp (NASDAQ:VSEC) saw shorts transact 2.52 million shares and set a 10.02 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $134 and $140 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, VSEC has been trading -14.28% off suggested target high and -9.38% from its likely low.

VSE Corp (VSEC) estimates and forecasts

The rating firms project that company’s revenue will shrink -3.04% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 6 analysts is 246.83M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 6 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 263.74M.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 241.54M and 265.96M respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 2.19% before dropping -0.83% in the following quarter.

An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings shrunk an estimated -12.72% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 6.87% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 23.98% annually.

VSEC Dividends

VSE Corp has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-25. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. VSE Corp has a forward dividend ratio of 0.40, with the share yield ticking at 0.33% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 0.76%.

VSE Corp (NASDAQ:VSEC)’s Major holders

VSE Corp insiders hold 2.58% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 112.02% of the shares at 114.98% float percentage. In total, 112.02% institutions holds shares in the company, led by FMR LLC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 2.33 million shares (or 13.5816% of shares), all amounting to roughly $205.66 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is CAPITAL RESEARCH GLOBAL INVESTORS with 1.54 million shares, or about 8.9514% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $135.54 million.

We also have SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC and T. Rowe Price Small-Cap Stock Fund, Inc. as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the VSE Corp (VSEC) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC holds roughly 1.49 shares. This is just over 7.23% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $183.12 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 619.64, or 3.00% of the shares, all valued at about 75.92 million.