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 22.94% and 35.79% over the past three months. VST shares are trading 22.24% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 310.75% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $41.02 and touched a high of $199.84 over the same period. VST has an average intraday trading volume of 7.25 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 -0.10%, 7.34%, and 51.43% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Vistra Corp (NYSE: VST) shares accounts for 89.02% of the company’s 340.72M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $57.34B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.24. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 31.92, 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 9.59% over the week and 7.53% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 49.50%, and 27.69% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the VST, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. BofA Securities stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on January 27, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $206. Evercore ISI coverage for the Vistra Corp (VST) stock in a research note released on January 21, 2025 offered a Outperform rating with a price target of $202. JP Morgan was of a view on October 17, 2024 that the stock is Overweight, while Exane BNP Paribas gave the stock Outperform rating on October 14, 2024, issuing a price target of $231. Jefferies on their part issued Buy rating on September 13, 2024.
