Currently, there are 375.25M common shares owned by the public and among those 368.18M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -3.83% and 15.30% over the past three months. VRT shares are trading 13.50% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 157.80% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $48.86 and touched a high of $145.67 over the same period. VRT has an average intraday trading volume of 6.54 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 5.60%, 3.71%, and 30.64% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE: VRT) shares accounts for 86.86% of the company’s 375.25M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $48.40B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.63. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 85.81, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.50. The company has a PEG of 2.42 and a Quick Ratio of 1.02 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 1.72. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 5.34% over the week and 4.57% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Vertiv Holdings Co (VRT) will achieve an EPS of 0.82 for the current quarter, 0.64 for the next quarter and 3.58 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.71 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.71. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.56 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 51.34%, and 33.30% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 35.47% over the next five years, compared to 82.85% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the VRT, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Morgan Stanley stated their Overweight rating for the stock in a research note on January 06, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $150. Barclays coverage for the Vertiv Holdings Co (VRT) stock in a research note released on December 12, 2024 offered a Equal Weight rating with a price target of $142. UBS was of a view on November 13, 2024 that the stock is Buy, while Jefferies gave the stock Buy rating on October 07, 2024, issuing a price target of $125. Mizuho on their part issued Outperform rating on August 07, 2024.
