Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) price on Wednesday, February 05, rose 1.95% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $171.61.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $168.33, moving within a range at $168.67 and $176.36. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.111 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 32.51. Turning to its 52-week performance, $199.84 and $42.22 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, VST moved 5.70% over the past month.
Vistra Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $58.39 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in March. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.87, with its dividend yield at 0.51%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 3.9B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 3.81B and 3.97B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 26.86% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 17.26B, representing a 16.82% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that VST is a 100% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
6 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 6 recommend VST as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
VST’s current price about 1.32% and 8.88% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 53.92, while 7-day volatility ratio is 7.41% and 7.23% in the 30-day chart. Further, Vistra Corp (VST) has a beta value of 1.20, and an average true range (ATR) of 12.84. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $134.5, forecast between a low of $125 and high of $141. Looking at the price targets, the low is 27.16% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move 17.84%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 21.62% jump to $134.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 13.78 over the past 10 days and 7.23 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 340.72 million shares.
The 0.85% of Vistra Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 88.86% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 9.79 million on 2025-01-15, giving us a short ratio of 1.69. The data shows that as of 2025-01-15 short interest in Vistra Corp (VST) stood at 335.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 7.25 million registered in 2024-12-13. Current price change has pushed the stock 24.47% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the VST stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
