Essential Information for Vertiv (VRT) Shareholders

By Harris Dyer • Tuesday, March 04 09:55 • Permanent Link

One of the losers of today's trading session was Vertiv. Shares of the Farm & heavy construction machinery company plunged -4.1%, and some investors may be wondering if its price of $81.95 would make a good entry point. Here's what you should know if you are considering this investment:

Vertiv has moved 22.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 15.2%
VRT has an average analyst rating of buy and is -39.58% away from its mean target price of $135.62 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.28
Vertiv has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 64.0 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $3.44 and its forward P/E ratio is 23.8
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 12.82 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
Vertiv is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 30.01 and an average P/B of 3.91
VRT has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -36.3% and gross profit margins of 0.4%
The company has a free cash flow of $1.04 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. The company 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. It 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 critical digital infrastructure software services. The company offers its products primarily under the Vertiv, Liebert, NetSure, Geist, Energy Labs, ERS, Albér, and Avocent brands. It 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. The company is headquartered in Westerville, Ohio.

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