Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE) price on Thursday, April 10, fall -14.92% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $13.34.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $15.68, moving within a range at $12.81 and $14.8. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 2.835. Turning to its 52-week performance, $58.30 and $12.30 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, VTLE moved -38.21% over the past month.
Vital Energy Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $508.54 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-18.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 528.76M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 499M and 546M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 9.62% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 2.08B, representing a 6.49% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that VTLE is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
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 2 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 2 recommend VTLE 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.
VTLE’s current price about -31.99% and -46.48% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 28.79, while 7-day volatility ratio is 20.84% and 9.14% in the 30-day chart. Further, Vital Energy Inc (VTLE) has a beta value of 1.55, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.94. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $27, forecast between a low of $27 and high of $27. Looking at the price targets, the low is -102.4% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -102.4%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -102.4% jump to $27 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.14 over the past 10 days and 1.25 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 38.14 million shares.
The 32.99% of Vital Energy Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 75.21% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 5.64 million on 2025-03-14, giving us a short ratio of 3.69. The data shows that as of 2025-03-14 short interest in Vital Energy Inc (VTLE) stood at 2178.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 5.44 million registered in 2025-02-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -56.86% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the VTLE stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
