Are Analysts Too Bullish On Veren Inc (VRN)

Veren Inc (NYSE:VRN) currently has a daily average trading volume of 20.02M but it saw 15087432 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 4.15B USD, the company’s current market price of $6.78 came rising about 0.15 while comparing to the previous closing price of $6.77. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $9.28 and as low as $4.39. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $6.7644 while lowest mark touched by it was $6.92.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Veren Inc (VRN) gives us an average price of $5.89, while its current price level is -26.93% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 54.27% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $5.49 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $6.19. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.34% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 4.46%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 75.90 which implies that the stock is in overbought territory.

Over the week, VRN’s stock price is moving 3.04% up while it is 42.44% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 31.91% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -12.97%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-26, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 1.41. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $1.03B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $4.27B and seeing the company making $4.2B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $1.01B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Veren Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 611.82M with 0.66% of that held by the insiders while 46.29% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 3.01% and return on equity (ROE) at 4.07%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 21.54 while having a 9.36 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.53. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.88 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.43. Its return on asset (ROA) is 2.21% on average.