Currently, there are 340.72M common shares owned by the public and among those 337.33M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 4.00% and 36.09% over the past three months. VST shares are trading 23.67% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 338.67% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $38.95 and touched a high of $169.19 over the same period. VST has an average intraday trading volume of 5.88 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 14.23%, 15.69%, and 62.71% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Vistra Corp (NYSE: VST) shares accounts for 89.13% of the company’s 340.72M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $58.01B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.20. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 32.30, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $5.28. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 6.69% over the week and 5.16% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Vistra Corp (VST) will achieve an EPS of 0.11 for the current quarter, 1.27 for the next quarter and 6.8 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is -1.8 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of -1.8. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was -0.55 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 32.27%, and 47.18% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the VST, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. JP Morgan stated their Overweight rating for the stock in a research note on October 17, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $178. Exane BNP Paribas coverage for the Vistra Corp (VST) stock in a research note released on October 14, 2024 offered a Outperform rating with a price target of $231. Jefferies was of a view on September 13, 2024 that the stock is Buy, while Janney gave the stock Buy rating on April 18, 2024, issuing a price target of $82. BofA Securities on their part issued Buy rating on September 30, 2021.
