Vistra Corp (VST) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $120.00, with 7.03 million shares of worth about $844.0 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -8.51% during that period and on April 23, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 6.54%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 339.75M shares, out of which, 335.93M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 3.67% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -11.07%. Year-to-date (YTD), VST shares are showing a performance of -12.96% which increased to 82.76% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $66.50 but also hit the highest price of $199.84 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Vistra Corp shares is 9.35 million. The stock is currently trading 5.34% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -6.16% for SMA50 and it goes to -2.93% lower than SMA200.
Vistra Corp (NYSE: VST) currently have 339.75M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 84.89% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $40.82B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.19. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 16.98, while it has posted earnings per share of $7.07 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.40 and has Quick Ratio of 0.85 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 3.12. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for VST, volatility over the week remained 6.33% while standing at 8.35% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -3.32% while it is estimated to increase by 29.54% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 12.14% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 30.39% 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 Goldman on April 04, 2025 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $134 to it. Coverage by Daiwa Securities stated Vistra Corp (VST) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on March 05, 2025, suggesting a price target of $120 for the stock. On March 04, 2025, BofA Securities Upgrade their recommendations, while on January 27, 2025, BofA Securities Resumed their ratings for the stock with a price target of $206. Stock get an Outperform rating from Evercore ISI on January 21, 2025.
