Vistra Corp (VST) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $46.18, with 4.26 million shares of worth about $196.57 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 53.93% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a gain of about 0.07%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 389.75M shares, out of which, 354.07M shares are available for trading.
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 75 times over the past 12 months. They bought 1,007,785 shares in 40 of the transactions. In 35 selling transactions, insiders dumped 471,539 shares.
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However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 47.35, or with a gain of 0.07%. Stock saw a price change of 4.48% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 15.54%. Year-to-date (YTD), VST shares are showing a performance of 19.89% which increased to 101.13% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $21.18 but also hit the highest price of $46.91 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Vistra Corp shares is 3.57 million. The stock is currently trading 7.92% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 15.03% for SMA50 and it goes to 42.62% higher than SMA200.
Vistra Corp (NYSE: VST) currently have 389.75M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 96.09% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $16.51B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.98. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 13.61, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.39 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 1.14 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 2.54. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for VST, volatility over the week remained 2.78% while standing at 2.68% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Vistra Corp (VST) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.83 and it is $4.1 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -$0.38 which is $0.41 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of -$0.73 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 190.12% while it is estimated to increase by 15.40% in next year.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by BofA Securities on September 30, 2021 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $23 to it. On July 09, 2021, BofA Securities Upgrade their recommendations, while on July 09, 2021, BofA Securities Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $23. Stock get an Outperform rating from Wolfe Research on July 07, 2021.
