Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) does about 5.11M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 8447056 shares change hands in Tuesday trading. The company now has a market cap of 24.19B USD. Its current market price is $69.53, marking a decrease of -6.57% compared to the previous close of $74.42. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $75.89 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $22.67.
Vistra Corp (VST) has a 20-day trading average at $67.99 and the current price is -8.38% off the 52-week high compared with 206.70% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $56.33 and its 200-day simple moving average is $38.81. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 7.15%, which decreases to 4.86% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 58.04 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $67.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential downside of -3.78% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on September 30, 2021 when BofA Securities reiterated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $23. BofA Securities upgraded its price target at $23.
Vistra Corp (VST) stock is down -2.28% over the week and 14.94% over the past month. Its price is 80.50% year-to-date and 188.87% over the past year.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to shrink -3.78 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 351.46M with insiders holding 0.63% of the shares and institutional holders owning 93.01% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 7.59% and return on equity of 29.25%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 19.93 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 14.63. The beta has a value of 1.06. Price to book ratio is 8.63 and price to sales ratio is 1.56.
