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 14.32% and 45.64% over the past three months. VST shares are trading 34.44% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 370.31% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $39.08 and touched a high of $178.40 over the same period. VST has an average intraday trading volume of 5.73 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 18.74%, 22.16%, and 73.45% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Vistra Corp (NYSE: VST) shares accounts for 89.07% of the company’s 340.72M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $63.06B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.23. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 35.11, 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 5.83% over the week and 5.56% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 32.62%, and 47.16% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the VST, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Evercore ISI stated their Outperform rating for the stock in a research note on Jan-22-25, with the firm’s price target at $202. JP Morgan coverage for the Vistra Corp (VST) stock in a research note released on October 17, 2024 offered a Overweight rating with a price target of $178. Exane BNP Paribas was of a view on October 14, 2024 that the stock is Outperform, while Jefferies gave the stock Buy rating on September 13, 2024, issuing a price target of $99. Janney on their part issued Buy rating on April 18, 2024.
