Vital Farms Inc (NASDAQ:VITL) shares, rose in value on Friday, March 28, with the stock price down by -1.82% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $29.72.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $30.27, falling within a range of $28.94 and $30.485. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.952 whereas the PE ratio was 24.96 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $48.41, and the low was $23.04. On the whole, VITL has fluctuated by -3.48% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Vital Farms Inc currently standing at about $1.32 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-26.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 741.01M, with a low estimate of 160.5M and a high estimate of 173.03M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 164.8M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that VITL’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.28, with the price of VITL currently trading nearly -3.77% and -15.93% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 41.58, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 5.00% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.56%. Furthermore, Vital Farms Inc (VITL)’s beta value is 0.97, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.82.
A comparison of Vital Farms Inc (VITL) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. VITL showed an intraday change of -1.82% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 29.56%%.
Data on historical trading for Vital Farms Inc (NASDAQ:VITL) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.88 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.17 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 44.04 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 26.47% of Vital Farms Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 85.96% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 6.59 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 4.38. According to the data, the short interest in Vital Farms Inc (VITL) stood at 2201.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 6.79 million. The stock has fallen by -21.15% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the VITL stock heading into the next quarter.
