Vistra Corp (NYSE: VST) is 8.54% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $40.54 and a high of $199.84 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The VST stock was last observed hovering at around $137.08 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 12.56%.
Currently trading at $149.64, the stock is -8.56% and -3.47% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 20.87 million and changing 9.16% at the moment leaves the stock 36.86% off its SMA200. VST registered 270.12% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 110.40%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $154.8764 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $108.94495.
The stock witnessed a 4.38% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 19.16%, and is -19.27% down 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 8.93% over the week and 6.46% over the month.
Vistra Corp (VST) has around 4870 employees, a market worth around $50.91B and $15.41B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 28.35 and Fwd P/E is 21.40. Profit margin for the company is 12.02%. Distance from 52-week low is 269.12% and -25.12% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (8.09%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 49.50% this year.
Vistra Corp (VST) Top Institutional Holders
1278.0 institutions hold shares in Vistra Corp (VST), with institutional investors hold 90.81% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 340.72M, and float is at 337.33M with Short Float at 2.90%. Institutions hold 90.25% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 43.17 million shares valued at $3.71 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 12.3719% of the VST Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 27.16 million shares valued at $2.34 billion to account for 7.7832 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FMR LLC which holds 26.96 million shares representing 7.7262% and valued at over $2.32 billion, while STATE STREET CORP holds 4.3895 of the shares totaling 15.32 million with a market value of $1.32 billion.
Vistra Corp (VST) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by HELM SCOTT B, the company’s Director. SEC filings show that HELM SCOTT B sold 20,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Dec 10 ’24 at a price of $139.77 per share for a total of $2.8 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.34 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Nov 25 ’24, HUDSON SCOTT A (EVP & President Vistra Retail) disposed off 115,000 shares at an average price of $164.16 for $18.88 million. The insider now directly holds 254,932 shares of Vistra Corp (VST).
