Financial Health Check: Examining VSE Corp (VSEC)’s Key Ratios

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VSE Corp (NASDAQ: VSEC) closed the day trading at $98.39 up 0.12% from the previous closing price of $98.27. In other words, the price has increased by $0.12 from its previous closing price. On the day, 72850.0 shares were traded. VSEC stock price reached its highest trading level at $99.65 during the session, while it also had its lowest trading level at $98.1.

Ratios:

For a better understanding of VSEC, let’s look at its different ratios. For the most recent quarter (mrq), Quick Ratio is recorded 1.15 and its Current Ratio is at 3.69. In the meantime, Its Debt-to-Equity ratio is 0.61 whereas as Long-Term Debt/Eq ratio is at 0.57.

Upgrades & Downgrades

In addition, analysts’ ratings and any changes thereto give investors an idea of the stock’s future direction. In the most recent recommendation for this company, Jefferies on August 14, 2024, initiated with a Buy rating and assigned the stock a target price of $100.

On June 28, 2024, Stifel started tracking the stock assigning a Buy rating and target price of $101.

RBC Capital Mkts Upgraded its Sector Perform to Outperform on May 02, 2023, whereas the target price for the stock was revised from $50 to $55.

Insider Transactions:

The insider trade also gives investors a glimpse into the future direction of stock prices, which can be beneficial to investors. A recent insider transaction in this stock occurred on Nov 11 ’24 when KOONCE CALVIN SCOTT bought 456,000 shares for $114.42 per share.

Koonce Janet B. bought 20,000 shares of VSEC for $2,044,800 on Oct 28 ’24. On Oct 17 ’24, another insider, KOONCE CALVIN SCOTT, who serves as the Former 10% shareholder within of the company, bought 326,800 shares for $105.80 each.

Valuation Measures:

Investors should consider key stock statistics when deciding whether to invest or divest. In the wake of the recent closing price, VSEC now has a Market Capitalization of 2008307200 and an Enterprise Value of 2502052096. As of this moment, VSE’s Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio for their current fiscal year is 125.50, and their Forward P/E ratio for the next fiscal year is 22.04. The expected Price-to-Earnings-to-Growth (PEG) calculation for the next 5 years is 6.40. For the stock, the TTM Price-to-Sale (P/S) ratio is 1.98 while its Price-to-Book (P/B) ratio in mrq is 2.30. Its current Enterprise Value per Revenue stands at 2.462 whereas that against EBITDA is 20.748.

Stock Price History:

Over the past 52 weeks, VSEC has reached a high of $123.92, while it has fallen to a 52-week low of $57.10. The 50-Day Moving Average of the stock is -10.47%, while the 200-Day Moving Average is calculated to be 9.31%.

Shares Statistics:

Over the past 3-months, VSEC traded about 225.85K shares per day on average, while over the past 10 days, VSEC traded about 290260 shares per day. A total of 20.41M shares are outstanding, with a floating share count of 18.93M. Insiders hold about 7.25% of the company’s shares, while institutions hold 86.90% stake in the company. Shares short for VSEC as of 1732838400 were 1324777 with a Short Ratio of 5.87, compared to 1730332800 on 1590429. Therefore, it implies a Short% of Shares Outstanding of 1324777 and a Short% of Float of 8.41.

Dividends & Splits

VSEC’s forward annual dividend rate is 0.40, up from 0.4 a year ago. Against a Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of 0.0040704184The stock’s 5-year Average Dividend Yield is 0.85.

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