Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE) price on Friday, February 07, fall -0.03% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $31.51.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $31.52, moving within a range at $31.2903 and $31.902. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 3.17 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 2.21. Turning to its 52-week performance, $58.30 and $25.85 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, VTLE moved -7.10% over the past month.
Vital Energy Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $1.20 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in March.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 550.47M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 525M and 569.54M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 23.83% 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 1.98B, representing a 27.96% 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 VTLE is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
4 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 2 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 2 recommend VTLE 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.
VTLE’s current price about -7.15% and -2.00% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 42.24, while 7-day volatility ratio is 4.78% and 3.97% in the 30-day chart. Further, Vital Energy Inc (VTLE) has a beta value of 3.06, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.35. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $48, forecast between a low of $48 and high of $48. Looking at the price targets, the low is -52.33% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -52.33%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -52.33% jump to $48 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.7 over the past 10 days and 777.84K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 38.17 million shares.
The 33.46% of Vital Energy Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 71.67% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 6.03 million on 2025-01-15, giving us a short ratio of 6.93. The data shows that as of 2025-01-15 short interest in Vital Energy Inc (VTLE) stood at 2327.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 6.81 million registered in 2024-12-13. Current price change has pushed the stock 1.91% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the VTLE stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
