Valaris Ltd (NYSE:VAL) price on current trading day, rose 0.35% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $45.76.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $45.60, moving within a range at $44.74 and $46.9899. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.138 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 10.75. Turning to its 52-week performance, $84.20 and $27.15 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, VAL moved 15.76% over the past month.
Valaris Ltd’s market cap currently stands at around $3.25 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Apr-29.
3 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, 3 recommend VAL 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.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 0.87, with VAL’s current price about 14.31% and 26.20% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 72.99, while 7-day volatility ratio is 1.78% and 2.82% in the 30-day chart. Further, Valaris Ltd (VAL) has a beta value of 1.16, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.88. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $80, forecast between a low of $62 and high of $98. Looking at the price targets, the low is -35.49% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -114.16%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -74.83% jump to $80 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Valaris Ltd (NYSE:VAL), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.63 over the past 10 days and 1.82 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 71.10 million shares.
The 11.54% of Valaris Ltd’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 94.83% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 9.97 million on 2025-05-30, giving us a short ratio of 5.72. The data shows that as of 2025-05-30 short interest in Valaris Ltd (VAL) stood at 1807.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 13.2 million registered in 2025-04-30. Current price change has pushed the stock 3.44% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the VAL stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
