Vital Farms Inc (NASDAQ:VITL) price on Friday, June 13, fall -1.68% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $31.65.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $32.19. The PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 28.12. Turning to its 52-week performance, $48.41 and $27.91 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, VITL moved -6.03% over the past month.
Vital Farms Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $1.41 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in July.
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 3 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 1 recommend VITL 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 Hold which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 1.42, with VITL’s current price about -2.90% and -5.02% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 43.72, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.44% and 2.19% in the 30-day chart. Further, Vital Farms Inc (VITL) has a beta value of 0.89, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.18. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $34.5, forecast between a low of $12 and high of $45. Looking at the price targets, the low is 62.09% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -42.18%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -9.0% jump to $34.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Vital Farms Inc (NASDAQ:VITL), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 850.35K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 44.50 million shares.
The 24.06% of Vital Farms Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 88.93% of the company’s shares. Current price change has pushed the stock -16.03% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the VITL stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
