Vital Farms Inc (VITL) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $30.79, with 4.09 million shares of worth about $126.02 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -5.61% during that period and on February 27, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -9.12%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 43.71M shares, out of which, 32.11M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -11.45% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -28.18%. Year-to-date (YTD), VITL shares are showing a performance of -18.31% which increased to 77.98% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $17.27 but also hit the highest price of $48.41 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Vital Farms Inc shares is 1.03 million. The stock is currently trading -14.79% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -20.49% for SMA50 and it goes to -17.02% lower than SMA200.
Vital Farms Inc (NASDAQ: VITL) currently have 43.71M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 86.83% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $1.35B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.95. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 27.37, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.12 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.46 and has Quick Ratio of 2.81 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for VITL, volatility over the week remained 8.85% while standing at 5.93% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 6.43% while it is estimated to increase by 23.83% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 18.73% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 31.87% 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 Telsey Advisory Group on January 27, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $52 to it. Coverage by Craig Hallum stated Vital Farms Inc (VITL) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on December 20, 2024, suggesting a price target of $50 for the stock. On August 09, 2024, TD Cowen Upgrade their recommendations, while on May 10, 2024, Stifel Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $40. Stock get an Outperform rating from William Blair on April 10, 2024.
