VAALCO Energy Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:EGY)

2 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for VAALCO Energy in the last year. There are currently 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" EGY shares.
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VAALCO Energy's stock was trading at $4.56 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, EGY stock has decreased by 1.1% and is now trading at $4.51.
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VAALCO Energy saw a decline in short interest during the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,050,000 shares, a decline of 8.5% from the October 15th total of 2,240,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,060,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.9 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 4th 2024.
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VAALCO Energy, Inc. (NYSE:EGY) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 7th. The energy company reported $0.07 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.14 by $0.07. The energy company had revenue of $116.27 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $126.15 million. VAALCO Energy had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.09% and a net margin of 8.48%.

VAALCO Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 14th. Investors of record on Friday, November 24th will be given a dividend of $0.0625 per share on Thursday, December 21st. This represents a $0.25 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 5.54%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 22nd.
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VAALCO Energy (NYSE:EGY) pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 5.39%. EGY has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 78.13%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, EGY will have a dividend payout ratio of 17.99% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Roundhill Acquirers Deep Value ETF holds 94,083 shares of EGY stock, representing 1.00% of its portfolio.

3 employees have rated VAALCO Energy Chief Executive Officer Cary Bounds on Glassdoor.com. Cary Bounds has an approval rating of 42% among the company's employees. This puts Cary Bounds in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other VAALCO Energy investors own include Abraxas Petroleum (AXAS), Tufton Oceanic Assets (SHIP), Acasti Pharma (ACST), Micron Technology (MU), Atlantic Power (AT), Palatin Technologies (PTN), CTI BioPharma (CTIC), Nevsun Resources (NSU) and Pulmatrix (PULM).

VAALCO Energy's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Kornitzer Capital Management Inc. KS (2.06%), Tieton Capital Management LLC (1.42%), Invesco Ltd. (1.13%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.07%), Northern Trust Corp (0.98%) and LSV Asset Management (0.54%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew Lawrence Fawthrop, Bradley Louis Radoff, Edward David Lafehr, George WM Maxwell, Jason Doornik, Ronald Y Bain and Thor Pruckl.
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