What Are the Fundamentals of Vertiv (VRT)?

By Susan Ramirez • Tuesday, February 13 09:48 • Permanent Link

We're taking a closer look at Vertiv today, as the chatter surrounding the stock has increased notably in the last few weeks. Today, its shares moved -2.1% compared to -1.0% for the S&P 500. Increased investor interest and volatility surrounding the stock are not reason enough to buy in -- you should first perform your own due diligence. Here are some figures that can get you started:

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.
Vertiv has moved 292.3% over the last year compared to 21.4% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of 270.9%
VRT has an average analyst rating of buy and is 11.66% away from its mean target price of $53.77 per share
Its trailing 12 month earnings per share (EPS) is $0.67
Vertiv has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 89.6 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $2.24 and its forward P/E ratio is 26.8
VRT has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 0.48, which shows the company is very undervalued compared to its earnings growth estimates.
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 13.36 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Vertiv is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 35.0 and an average P/B of 7.92
Vertiv has on average reported free cash flows of $62.84 Million over the last four years, during which time they have grown by an an average of 39.9%

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