NASDAQ:VIRTVirtu Financial Stock Price, Forecast & News

Virtu Financial's stock was trading at $24.15 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, VIRT shares have increased by 0.9% and is now trading at $24.36. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Virtu Financial in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Virtu Financial.

Virtu Financial is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, August 7th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Virtu Financial.

Virtu Financial will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, August 7th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Virtu Financial Inc (NASDAQ:VIRT) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May, 7th. The financial services provider reported $2.05 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.39 by $0.66. The financial services provider earned $1 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $563.55 million. Virtu Financial had a net margin of 7.79% and a return on equity of 38.58%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 176.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.34 earnings per share. View Virtu Financial's earnings history.

Virtu Financial declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, May 8th. Shareholders of record on Monday, June 1st will be given a dividend of $0.24 per share on Monday, June 15th. This represents a $0.96 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.94%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 29th. View Virtu Financial's dividend history.

8 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Virtu Financial's stock. Their forecasts range from $15.50 to $31.00. On average, they expect Virtu Financial's stock price to reach $25.06 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 2.9% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Virtu Financial.

News stories about VIRT stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Virtu Financial earned a media sentiment score of -1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news about Virtu Financial.

Virtu Financial saw a drop in short interest in June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 5,210,000 shares, a drop of 19.5% from the June 15th total of 6,470,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,400,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.7 days. Approximately 5.4% of the company's shares are short sold. View Virtu Financial's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Virtu Financial include Nomura (NMR), Raymond James (RJF), SEI Investments (SEIC), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), Stifel Financial (SF), Future Healthcare of America (FUTU), Navient (NAVI), Futu (FHL), Freedom (FRHC), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Waddell & Reed Financial (WDR), Associated Capital Group (AC), Piper Jaffray Companies (PJC), Wisdom Tree Investments (WETF) and Cowen (COWN). View all competitors.

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(VIRT) raised $297 million in an initial public offering (IPO) 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. served 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 number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.01%). Company insiders that own Virtu Financial stock include Douglas A Cifu, Holdings (Private) Ltd Temasek, John Nixon, Joseph C Grano, Sector Pension Investme Public and Stephen Cavoli. View institutional ownership trends for Virtu Financial.

VIRT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Envestnet Asset Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Virtu Financial company stock in the last year include Holdings (Private) Ltd Temasek, Joseph C Grano, and Sector Pension Investme Public. View insider buying and selling activity for Virtu Financial.

Shares of VIRT can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of VIRT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $24.36.

Virtu Financial has a market capitalization of $4.69 billion and generates $1.53 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $-58,600,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.61 on an earnings per share basis. Virtu Financial employs 1,012 workers across the globe.

The official website for Virtu Financial is www.virtu.com.

Virtu Financial's mailing address is 165 BROADWAY, NEW YORK NY, 10006. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 212-418-0100 or via email at [email protected]