VMware Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:VMW)

4 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for VMware in the last twelve months. There are currently 4 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" VMW shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in VMW, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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4 analysts have issued 1 year price targets for VMware's shares. Their VMW share price targets range from $134.00 to $182.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $160.25 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 12.1% from the stock's current price.
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VMware's stock was trading at $122.76 at the start of the year. Since then, VMW stock has increased by 16.5% and is now trading at $143.00.
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VMware saw a increase in short interest during the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 10,220,000 shares, an increase of 138.2% from the October 15th total of 4,290,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,160,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.7 days.
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VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August, 31st. The virtualization software provider reported $1.83 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.71 by $0.12. The virtualization software provider earned $3.41 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.45 billion. VMware had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 113.34% and a net margin of 10.48%. VMware's revenue was up 2.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.99 earnings per share.

ETFs with the largest weight of VMware (NYSE:VMW) stock in their portfolio include Direxion Daily Cloud Computing Bull 2x (CLDL), iShares Cybersecurity and Tech ETF (IHAK), Pacer Data and Digital Revolution ETF (TRFK), ERShares Entrepreneurs ETF (ENTR), Fidelity Cloud Computing ETF (FCLD), Capital Link Global Fintech Leaders ETF (KOIN), Direxion Work From Home ETF (WFH) and AltShares Event-Driven ET (EVNT).

2,988 employees have rated VMware Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger on Glassdoor.com. Pat Gelsinger has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Pat Gelsinger in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other VMware investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Salesforce (CRM), Alibaba Group (BABA), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Walt Disney (DIS), Netflix (NFLX), PayPal (PYPL), Adobe (ADBE) and Micron Technology (MU).

VMware's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Pentwater Capital Management LP (0.00%), Deutsche Bank AG (0.72%), Deutsche Bank AG (0.72%), Maven Securities LTD (0.00%), Ursa Fund Management LLC (0.00%) and Legal & General Group Plc (0.41%). Insiders that own company stock include Amy Fliegelman Olli, Jean Pierre Brulard, Patrick P Gelsinger, Patrick P Gelsinger, Rangarajan (Raghu) Raghuram, Sanjay Poonen, Sumit Dhawan and Zane Rowe.
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