Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) Updates FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 3.500-3.600 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 3.570. The company issued revenue guidance of $9.1 billion-$9.3 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $9.3 billion. Vertiv also updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 0.570-0.630 EPS.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several research firms recently weighed in on VRT. The Goldman Sachs Group boosted their target price on Vertiv from $126.00 to $140.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, November 19th. Barclays reduced their price objective on shares of Vertiv from $142.00 to $131.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday. Morgan Stanley assumed coverage on shares of Vertiv in a research report on Monday, January 6th. They issued an “overweight” rating and a $150.00 target price on the stock. Melius cut shares of Vertiv from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $125.00 price target for the company. in a research report on Tuesday, January 28th. Finally, Bank of America raised their price objective on Vertiv from $130.00 to $140.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, October 24th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eleven have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $138.57.

Vertiv Stock Performance

Shares of NYSE:VRT traded down $2.25 during trading on Thursday, reaching $108.99. The company had a trading volume of 2,740,038 shares, compared to its average volume of 10,013,509. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $123.88 and its 200 day moving average price is $108.11. Vertiv has a fifty-two week low of $55.00 and a fifty-two week high of $155.84. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.60, a current ratio of 1.38 and a quick ratio of 1.02. The firm has a market capitalization of $40.91 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 73.17, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.94 and a beta of 1.64.

Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, February 12th. The company reported $0.99 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.84 by $0.15. Vertiv had a return on equity of 55.33% and a net margin of 7.72%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.56 earnings per share. As a group, equities research analysts predict that Vertiv will post 2.7 EPS for the current year.

Vertiv Increases Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, December 19th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, December 3rd were paid a dividend of $0.0375 per share. This is a positive change from Vertiv’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.03. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, December 3rd. This represents a $0.15 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.14%. Vertiv’s payout ratio is 6.67%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, EVP Stephen Liang sold 86,619 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, November 26th. The shares were sold at an average price of $131.07, for a total value of $11,353,152.33. Following the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 19,551 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,562,549.57. This represents a 81.59 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, Director Jan Van Dokkum sold 38,647 shares of Vertiv stock in a transaction dated Monday, November 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $136.39, for a total transaction of $5,271,064.33. Following the transaction, the director now owns 25,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,409,750. The trade was a 60.72 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 171,527 shares of company stock worth $23,105,682 in the last quarter. Company insiders own 5.01% of the company’s stock.

Vertiv Company Profile

Vertiv Holdings Co, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and services critical digital infrastructure technologies and life cycle services for data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial environments in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.