Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) has a beta value of 1.31 and has seen 1.28 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $65.18B, closed the recent trade at $192.09 per share which meant it lost -$2.72 on the day or -1.40% during that session. The VST stock price is -4.25% off its 52-week high price of $200.25 and 65.38% above the 52-week low of $66.50. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 4.57 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 5.59 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Vistra Corp (VST) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.47. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 0 out of 6 have rated it as a Hold, with 6 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) trade information
Sporting -1.40% in the red today, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the VST stock price touched $192.09 or saw a rise of 4.07%. Year-to-date, Vistra Corp shares have moved 109.68%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 1.00%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) have changed 10.48%. Short interest in the company has seen 6.6 million shares shorted with days to cover at 1.22.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $134, which means that the shares’ value could drop -43.35% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $120.0 while the price target rests at a high of $192.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is 0.05% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 37.53% from the levels at last check today..
Vistra Corp (VST) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 15.21% over the past 6 months.
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 30.39% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest -11.17% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 10.50%.
VST Dividends
Vistra Corp is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-May-07 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.89 at a share yield of 0.46%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 2.26%.
Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST)’s Major holders
Insiders own 0.69% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 81.98% with a share float percentage of 82.55%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Vistra Corp having a total of 1493.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 43.17 million shares worth more than $3.71 billion. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 12.4403% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 27.16 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $2.34 billion and represent 7.8262% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 3.17% shares in the company for having 10.76 shares of worth $2.07 billion while later fund manager owns 9.45 shares of worth $1.82 billion as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.79% of company’s outstanding stock.
