Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) shares, rose in value on Thursday, March 27, with the stock price down by -3.79% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $119.31.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $124.01, falling within a range of $118.39 and $124.4988. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.232 whereas the PE ratio was 16.88 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $199.84, and the low was $64.26. On the whole, VST has fluctuated by -19.49% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Vistra Corp currently standing at about $40.58 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-26. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.88, with its dividend yield at 0.74%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 20.67B, with a low estimate of 5.8B and a high estimate of 5.8B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 5.8B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that VST’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.95, with the price of VST currently trading nearly -3.80% and -19.69% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 39.64, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 5.05% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 7.31%. Furthermore, Vistra Corp (VST)’s beta value is 1.21, and its average true range (ATR) is 9.09.
A comparison of Vistra Corp (VST) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. VST showed an intraday change of -3.79% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 67.57%%.
Data on historical trading for Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 6.65 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 9.01 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 339.75 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 1.24% of Vistra Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 85.00% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 6.97 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 0.68. According to the data, the short interest in Vistra Corp (VST) stood at 238.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 6.84 million. The stock has fallen by -13.46% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the VST stock heading into the next quarter.
