Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) Issues Q2 2025 Earnings Guidance

Vertiv (NYSE:VRT - Get Free Report) updated its second quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 0.770-0.850 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 0.830. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.3 billion-$2.4 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.4 billion. Vertiv also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 3.450-3.650 EPS.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of analysts have issued reports on the company. Roth Mkm assumed coverage on Vertiv in a research note on Tuesday, April 8th. They issued a "buy" rating and a $75.00 target price for the company. Evercore ISI restated an "outperform" rating and set a $150.00 target price (up from $100.00) on shares of Vertiv in a report on Tuesday, May 27th. Royal Bank of Canada started coverage on Vertiv in a research note on Friday, March 7th. They issued an "outperform" rating and a $121.00 price objective for the company. Barclays decreased their price objective on Vertiv from $100.00 to $90.00 and set an "equal weight" rating for the company in a research note on Friday, April 4th. Finally, Roth Capital raised Vertiv to a "strong-buy" rating in a research report on Monday, April 7th. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, thirteen have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company's stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Vertiv has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus target price of $124.69.

Vertiv Price Performance

VRT traded down $3.72 during trading on Friday, reaching $110.78. 5,895,502 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 8,713,885. The business's 50 day moving average price is $94.49 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $103.83. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.19, a current ratio of 1.65 and a quick ratio of 1.02. The company has a market capitalization of $42.22 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 86.55, a P/E/G ratio of 1.07 and a beta of 1.73. Vertiv has a 1 year low of $53.60 and a 1 year high of $155.84.

Vertiv (NYSE:VRT - Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, April 23rd. The company reported $0.64 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.62 by $0.02. The company had revenue of $2.04 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.94 billion. Vertiv had a return on equity of 61.41% and a net margin of 6.19%. Vertiv's quarterly revenue was up 24.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.43 earnings per share. As a group, equities research analysts anticipate that Vertiv will post 3.59 earnings per share for the current year.

Vertiv Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, June 26th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, June 17th will be given a dividend of $0.0375 per share. This represents a yield of 0.14%. This is an increase from Vertiv's previous dividend of $0.01. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, June 16th. Vertiv's payout ratio is presently 8.72%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Vertiv news, EVP Stephen Liang sold 43,683 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Friday, June 6th. The stock was sold at an average price of $115.83, for a total transaction of $5,059,801.89. Following the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 9,551 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,106,292.33. The trade was a 82.06% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, insider Karsten Winther sold 5,500 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Friday, May 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of $94.33, for a total value of $518,815.00. Following the sale, the insider now owns 18,847 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,777,837.51. The trade was a 22.59% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 2.63% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Vertiv

An institutional investor recently raised its position in Vertiv stock. Empowered Funds LLC boosted its holdings in Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE:VRT - Free Report) by 25.9% in the 1st quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 11,557 shares of the company's stock after purchasing an additional 2,377 shares during the quarter. Empowered Funds LLC's holdings in Vertiv were worth $834,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Institutional investors own 89.92% of the company's stock.

Vertiv Company Profile

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.