Vertiv Holdings Co (VRT) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $148.59, with 9.95 million shares of worth about $1.48 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 69.14% during that period and on January 22, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 3.81%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 375.25M shares, out of which, 368.18M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 15.23% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 30.21%. Year-to-date (YTD), VRT shares are showing a performance of 30.79% which increased to 176.86% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $52.40 but also hit the highest price of $145.67 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Vertiv Holdings Co shares is 6.45 million. The stock is currently trading 17.35% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 16.93% for SMA50 and it goes to 48.41% higher than SMA200.
Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE: VRT) currently have 375.25M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 86.82% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $55.77B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.66. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 98.88, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.50 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.83 and has Quick Ratio of 1.02 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.72. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for VRT, volatility over the week remained 4.26% while standing at 4.44% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Vertiv Holdings Co (VRT) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.82 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.64 and it is 3.57 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.71 which is 0.87 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 0.56 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 51.34% while it is estimated to increase by 33.08% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 35.00% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 82.85% 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 Morgan Stanley on January 06, 2025 offering an Overweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $150 to it. Coverage by Barclays stated Vertiv Holdings Co (VRT) stock as an Equal weight in their note to investors on December 12, 2024, suggesting a price target of $142 for the stock. On November 13, 2024, UBS Initiated their recommendations, while on October 07, 2024, Jefferies Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $125. Stock get an Outperform rating from Mizuho on August 07, 2024.
