Currently, there are 340.05M common shares owned by the public and among those 336.23M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 7.41% and 38.65% over the past three months. VST shares are trading 27.66% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 67.03% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $66.50 and touched a high of $199.84 over the same period. VST has an average intraday trading volume of 7.56 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 13.74%, 31.43%, and 32.04% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Vistra Corp (NYSE: VST) shares accounts for 80.76% of the company’s 340.05M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $59.72B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.24. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 27.61, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $6.38. The company has a PEG of 3.18 and a Quick Ratio of 0.77 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 3.67. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.11% over the week and 3.18% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Vistra Corp (VST) will achieve an EPS of 1.51 for the current quarter, 2.81 for the next quarter and 8.0 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 1.12 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 1.12. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.9 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -10.04%, and 34.22% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 8.68% 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. Goldman stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on April 04, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $134. Daiwa Securities coverage for the Vistra Corp (VST) stock in a research note released on March 05, 2025 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $120. BofA Securities was of a view on March 04, 2025 that the stock is Buy, while BofA Securities gave the stock Neutral rating on January 27, 2025, issuing a price target of $206. Evercore ISI on their part issued Outperform rating on January 21, 2025.
