Quick Look at Vertiv (VRT)

By Harris Dyer • Friday, July 05 07:50 • Permanent Link

Shares of Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery company Vertiv jumped 6.2% today. With many investors piling into VRT without a second thought, it may be a good idea to take a closer look at the stock. Here are some quick facts to get you started:

Vertiv has moved 279.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 25.9%
VRT has an average analyst rating of buy and is -11.69% away from its mean target price of $105.79 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.05
Vertiv has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 89.0 while the S&P 500 average is 27.65
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $3.09 and its forward P/E ratio is 30.2
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 25.07 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.59
Vertiv is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 32.54 and an average P/B of 4.25
The company has a free cash flow of $1.12 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
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. It offers AC and DC power management products, switchgear and busbar products, thermal management products, integrated rack systems, modular solutions, and management systems for monitoring and controlling digital infrastructure that are integral to the technologies used for various services, including e-commerce, online banking, file sharing, video on-demand, energy storage, wireless communications, Internet of Things, and online gaming. The company also provides lifecycle management services, predictive analytics, and professional services for deploying, maintaining, and optimizing its products and their related systems; and preventative maintenance, acceptance testing, engineering and consulting, performance assessments, remote monitoring, training, spare parts, and digital critical infrastructure software services. It offers its products primarily under the Vertiv, Liebert, NetSure, Geist, E&I, Powerbar, and Avocent brands. The company serves cloud services, financial services, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, energy, education, government, social media, and retail industries through a network of direct sales professionals, independent sales representatives, channel partners, and original equipment manufacturers. Vertiv Holdings Co is headquartered in Westerville, Ohio.

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