Valaris Ltd (NYSE: VAL) is -23.77% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $48.04 and a high of $84.20 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The VAL stock was last observed hovering at around $49.30 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 2.97%.
Currently trading at $52.27, the stock is 3.32% and -2.86% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.05 million and changing 6.02% at the moment leaves the stock -21.05% off its SMA200. VAL registered -21.94% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -28.98%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $54.025 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $66.2846.
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The stock witnessed a -2.97% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -19.94%, and is 7.13% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 4.84% over the week and 3.35% over the month.
Valaris Ltd (VAL) has around 5985 employees, a market worth around $3.72B and $2.26B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 3.59 and Fwd P/E is 8.97. Profit margin for the company is 47.52%. Distance from 52-week low is 8.81% and -37.92% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (32.99%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -63.49% this year
406.0 institutions hold shares in Valaris Ltd (VAL), with institutional investors hold 110.56% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 72.40M, and float is at 64.48M with Short Float at 13.85%. Institutions hold 100.69% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 7.41 million shares valued at $552.25 million. The investor’s holdings represent 10.2386 of the VAL Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 6.36 million shares valued at $473.97 million to account for 8.7872 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are ORBIS ALLAN GRAY LTD which holds 5.82 million shares representing 8.0349 and valued at over $433.39 million, while FMR LLC holds 6.901 of the shares totaling 5.0 million with a market value of $372.23 million.
Valaris Ltd (VAL) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Weber Christopher T, the company’s SVP – CFO. SEC filings show that Weber Christopher T sold 4,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Nov 05 ’24 at a price of $49.50 per share for a total of $0.2 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 52236.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Sep 30 ’24, Lyne Matthew (SVP – CCO) disposed off 26,000 shares at an average price of $55.77 for $1.45 million. The insider now directly holds 24,388 shares of Valaris Ltd (VAL).