Valvoline Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:VVV)

Valvoline trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "VVV."

Valvoline announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 18th. Investors of record on Friday, August 30th will be paid a dividend of $0.106 per share on Monday, September 16th. This represents a $0.42 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.94%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 29th. View Valvoline's Dividend History.

Valvoline Inc (NYSE:VVV) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July, 31st. The basic materials company reported $0.37 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.33 by $0.04. The basic materials company had revenue of $613 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $610.42 million. Valvoline had a negative return on equity of 80.89% and a net margin of 9.60%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 6.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.32 earnings per share. View Valvoline's Earnings History.

Valvoline is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, November 4th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Valvoline.

Valvoline issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, July, 31st. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.30-1.33 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $1.30. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.38-2.42 billion (+4-6%), compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.39 billion.

6 brokers have issued twelve-month price objectives for Valvoline's shares. Their forecasts range from $19.00 to $25.00. On average, they expect Valvoline's stock price to reach $22.40 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 2.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Valvoline.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Valvoline in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Valvoline.

Media stories about VVV stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Valvoline earned a media sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the basic materials company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Valvoline.

Valvoline saw a drop in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 3,710,000 shares, a drop of 7.9% from the August 30th total of 4,030,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,100,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.4 days. Approximately 2.0% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Valvoline's Current Options Chain.

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(VVV) raised $645 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, September 23rd 2016. The company issued 30,000,000 shares at a price of $20.00-$23.00 per share. BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Scotiabank, BTIG, Mizuho Securities, PNC Capital Markets and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey were co-managers.

Valvoline's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.22%), Winmill & CO. Inc. (0.07%), Deane Retirement Strategies Inc. (0.05%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.04%), Bowling Portfolio Management LLC (0.03%) and Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.02%). Company insiders that own Valvoline stock include Anthony R Puckett, Craig A Moughler, Julie Marie O'daniel, Mary E Meixelsperger, Samuel J Mitchell and Thomas A Gerrald II. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Valvoline.

VVV stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pacer Advisors Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Valvoline company stock in the last year include Anthony R Puckett, Craig A Moughler, Julie Marie O'daniel and Thomas A Gerrald II. View Insider Buying and Selling for Valvoline.

VVV stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Winmill & CO. Inc., Deane Retirement Strategies Inc., Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, Fox Run Management L.L.C., Meeder Asset Management Inc., State of Alaska Department of Revenue, NEXT Financial Group Inc and Envestnet Asset Management Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Valvoline stock in the last two years include Mary E Meixelsperger and Samuel J Mitchell. View Insider Buying and Selling for Valvoline.

Shares of VVV 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 VVV stock can currently be purchased for approximately $21.89.

Valvoline has a market capitalization of $4.12 billion and generates $2.29 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $166 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.29 on an earnings per share basis. Valvoline employs 6,700 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Valvoline.

The official website for Valvoline is http://www.valvoline.com/.

Valvoline's mailing address is 100 VALVOLINE WAY, LEXINGTON KY, 40509. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at 859-357-7777 or via email at [email protected]