Virtu Financial - VIRT Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Virtu Financial in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" VIRT shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in VIRT, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Virtu Financial's stock. Their VIRT share price forecasts range from $19.00 to $45.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $33.07 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 30.6% from the stock's current price.
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Virtu Financial's stock was trading at $28.83 at the start of the year. Since then, VIRT stock has decreased by 12.1% and is now trading at $25.33.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 2nd 2022.
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Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIRT) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 28th. The financial services provider reported $0.73 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.74 by $0.01. The financial services provider had revenue of $357.40 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $359.90 million. Virtu Financial had a net margin of 14.55% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 40.56%. Virtu Financial's revenue was up 4.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.63 earnings per share.

Virtu Financial announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 28th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 1st will be given a dividend of $0.24 per share on Thursday, September 15th. This represents a $0.96 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.79%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, August 31st.
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Virtu Financial (NASDAQ:VIRT) pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.78%. The dividend payout ratio is 29.63%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, VIRT will have a dividend payout ratio of 33.22% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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36 employees have rated Virtu Financial Chief Executive Officer Doug Cifu on Glassdoor.com. Doug Cifu has an approval rating of 85% among the company's employees.

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(VIRT) raised $297 million in an initial public offering on Thursday, April 16th 2015. The company issued 16,500,000 shares at $17.00-$19.00 per share. Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Sandler O'Neill + Partners, L.P. acted as the underwriters for the IPO and BMO Capital Markets, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Evercore ISI, UBS Investment Bank, Academy Securities, CIBC, Mizuho Securities and Rosenblatt Securities were co-managers.

Virtu Financial trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "VIRT."

Virtu Financial's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include William Blair Investment Management LLC (4.06%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (2.98%), FMR LLC (2.24%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (1.41%), Van Berkom & Associates Inc. (1.25%) and Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.96%). Insiders that own company stock include Brett Fairclough, Douglas A Cifu, Douglas A Cifu, Holdings (Private) Ltd Temasek, Joanne Minieri, Joseph C Grano, North Island Ventures, Llc, Private Ltd Gic, Sector Pension Investme Public and Stephen Cavoli.
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Shares of VIRT stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of VIRT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $25.33.

Virtu Financial (NASDAQ:VIRT) has a market capitalization of $4.36 billion and generates $2.81 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $476.88 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.24 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 973 workers across the globe.

Virtu Financial's mailing address is 165 BROADWAY, NEW YORK NY, 10006. The official website for the company is www.virtu.com. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at (212) 418-0100, via email at investor_relations@virtu.com, or via fax at 212-418-0123.