Viatris Inc (VTRS) concluded trading on Tuesday at a closing price of $12.45, with 5.82 million shares of worth about $72.4 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 19.37% during that period and on December 31, 2024 the price saw a gain of about 0.57%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 1.19B shares, out of which, 1.16B shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -0.32% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -4.89%. Year-to-date (YTD), VTRS shares are showing a performance of 14.96% which increased to 14.96% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $9.93 but also hit the highest price of $13.62 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Viatris Inc shares is 7.48 million. The stock is currently trading -1.17% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -0.45% for SMA50 and it goes to 6.98% higher than SMA200.
Viatris Inc (NASDAQ: VTRS) currently have 1.19B outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 79.62% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $14.94B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.96. It has posted earnings per share of -$0.74 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 0.88 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for VTRS, volatility over the week remained 2.07% while standing at 2.43% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -8.50% while it is estimated to decrease by -1.37% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of -3.41% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -41.87% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
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 Jefferies on July 19, 2024 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $15 to it. Coverage by BofA Securities stated Viatris Inc (VTRS) stock as an Underperform in their note to investors on October 23, 2023, suggesting a price target of $9 for the stock. On June 23, 2023, Barclays Downgrade their recommendations, while on April 24, 2023, Barclays Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $11. Stock get a Market perform rating from BMO Capital Markets on February 17, 2023.
