Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE:VRT) Receives Average Rating of “Moderate Buy” from Brokerages

Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE:VRT) has been assigned a consensus recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the twenty-nine research firms that are currently covering the stock, MarketBeat Ratings reports. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have assigned a hold rating, nineteen have given a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating on the company. The average 1 year price target among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is $160.30.

VRT has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Melius Research raised Vertiv from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating and boosted their price objective for the stock from $134.00 to $165.00 in a research note on Tuesday, July 8th. Oppenheimer boosted their price objective on Vertiv from $151.00 to $190.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Tuesday, October 14th. Zacks Research lowered Vertiv from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, October 2nd. Mizuho boosted their price objective on Vertiv from $165.00 to $198.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday. Finally, Roth Capital reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $162.00 price objective on shares of Vertiv in a research note on Thursday, September 25th.

Insider Transactions at Vertiv

In other news, Director Steven Reinemund sold 100,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, August 26th. The stock was sold at an average price of $128.22, for a total transaction of $12,822,000.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 133,333 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $17,095,957.26. This represents a 42.86% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. Also, insider Karsten Winther sold 41,654 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, August 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $134.21, for a total value of $5,590,383.34. Following the transaction, the insider directly owned 18,848 shares in the company, valued at $2,529,590.08. This trade represents a 68.85% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last three months, insiders sold 180,952 shares of company stock worth $23,360,571. 5.01% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Vertiv

Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in VRT. Norges Bank acquired a new position in Vertiv in the second quarter valued at about $538,132,000. Winslow Capital Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Vertiv in the second quarter worth about $459,284,000. Amundi increased its holdings in shares of Vertiv by 96.8% in the first quarter. Amundi now owns 6,951,773 shares of the company’s stock worth $469,490,000 after acquiring an additional 3,420,144 shares in the last quarter. 1832 Asset Management L.P. increased its holdings in shares of Vertiv by 985.3% in the first quarter. 1832 Asset Management L.P. now owns 2,301,700 shares of the company’s stock worth $166,183,000 after acquiring an additional 2,089,612 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Nordea Investment Management AB increased its holdings in shares of Vertiv by 100.1% in the second quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 3,246,769 shares of the company’s stock worth $415,132,000 after acquiring an additional 1,624,456 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 89.92% of the company’s stock.

Vertiv Stock Performance

Shares of NYSE:VRT opened at $174.11 on Monday. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $143.22 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $120.52. Vertiv has a fifty-two week low of $53.60 and a fifty-two week high of $184.44. The stock has a market capitalization of $66.49 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 83.31, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.50 and a beta of 1.84. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.93, a current ratio of 1.74 and a quick ratio of 1.35.

Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 30th. The company reported $0.95 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.83 by $0.12. Vertiv had a return on equity of 51.64% and a net margin of 8.93%.The firm had revenue of $2.64 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.36 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.67 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 35.1% compared to the same quarter last year. Vertiv has set its Q3 2025 guidance at 0.940-1.000 EPS. As a group, analysts predict that Vertiv will post 3.59 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Vertiv Announces Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, September 25th. Stockholders of record on Monday, September 15th were paid a dividend of $0.0375 per share. This represents a $0.15 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.1%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, September 15th. Vertiv’s dividend payout ratio is 7.18%.

About Vertiv

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.