Currently, there are 339.75M common shares owned by the public and among those 334.77M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -12.47% and -32.74% over the past three months. VST shares are trading -21.31% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 78.14% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $57.50 and touched a high of $199.84 over the same period. VST has an average intraday trading volume of 8.38 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 -25.07%, -30.46%, and -9.17% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Vistra Corp (NYSE: VST) shares accounts for 85.24% of the company’s 339.75M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $36.77B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.23. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 15.35, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $7.07. The company has a PEG of 1.67 and a Quick Ratio of 0.85 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 3.12. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 8.75% over the week and 7.64% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -9.06%, and 23.12% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 9.17% over the next five years, compared to 30.39% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the VST, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Daiwa Securities stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on March 05, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $120. BofA Securities coverage for the Vistra Corp (VST) stock in a research note released on March 04, 2025 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $152. BofA Securities was of a view on January 27, 2025 that the stock is Neutral, while Evercore ISI gave the stock Outperform rating on January 21, 2025, issuing a price target of $202. JP Morgan on their part issued Overweight rating on October 17, 2024.
