With 0.6 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.62 million shares. The 52-week range on VAC shows that it touched its highest point at $103.46 and its lowest point at $49.22 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $89.30. With its current market cap of 2.01 billion, VAC has annualized dividend of $3.10 while the current yield stands at 5.33%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.42.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of VAC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 6.19%, but this was up by 9.44% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -30.50% while six-month performance fell -26.07%. The stock lost -40.11% in the past year, while it has lost -35.19% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VAC yields 5.62 with Next year EPS estimates of 7.67. For the next quarter, that number is 1.75. This implies an EPS growth rate of 0.18% for this year and 16.76% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 7.38% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 12.67%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 34.88 million VAC shares are outstanding with a float of 31.50 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VAC since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $6.28714 being high and $6.07 being low. For VAC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.17857.
