During the last session, Viatris Inc (NASDAQ:VTRS)’s traded shares were 21.33 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.89. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $8.60, reflecting an intraday gain of 1.42% or $0.12. The 52-week high for the VTRS share is $13.55, that puts it down -57.56 from that peak though still a striking 20.35% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $6.85. The company’s market capitalization is $10.20B, and the average trade volume was 14.68 million shares over the past three months.
Viatris Inc (VTRS) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.45. VTRS has a Sell rating from 1 analyst(s) out of 5 analysts who have looked at this stock. 3 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 1 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 0.49.
Viatris Inc (NASDAQ:VTRS) trade information
Viatris Inc (VTRS) registered a 1.42% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 1.42% in intraday trading to $8.60, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 2.14%, and it has moved by 13.01% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -26.99%.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $14, which implies an increase of 38.57% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $12 and $15 respectively. As a result, VTRS is trading at a discount of -74.42% off the target high and -39.53% off the low.
Viatris Inc (VTRS) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will decrease -6.23% 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 3.24B as predicted by 4 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 4 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 3.47B by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 3.66B and 3.8B respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to shrink by -11.69% and then drop by -8.67% in the coming quarter.
While earnings are projected to return -16.06% in 2025, the next five years will return 0.67% per annum.
VTRS Dividends
Viatris Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. 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 Viatris Inc is 0.48, with the dividend yield indicating at 5.58 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.
The next largest institutional holding, with 92.67 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 7.78% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $985.06 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Viatris Inc (VTRS) shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Pacer Funds Trust-Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF . Data provided on Dec 31, 2024 indicates that VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 37.38 shares. This amounts to just over 3.15 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $321.47 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 34.73, or about 2.93% of the stock, which is worth about $298.69 million.
