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 3.3% 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:
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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.
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Vertiv has moved 230.9% over the last year compared to 20.9% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of 210.0%
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VRT has an average analyst rating of buy and is -19.42% away from its mean target price of $105.87 per share
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Its trailing 12 month earnings per share (EPS) is $1.05
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Vertiv has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 81.2 while the S&P 500 average is 28.21
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Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $3.09 and its forward P/E ratio is 27.6
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VRT has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 1.21, which shows the company is fairly valued compared to its earnings.
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The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 22.9 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.71
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Vertiv is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 31.58 and an average P/B of 4.11
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Vertiv has on average reported free cash flows of $90.51 Million over the last four years, during which time they have grown by an an average of 45.6%
