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. Shareholders 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.92%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 29th. View Valvoline's Dividend History.

Valvoline Inc (NYSE:VVV) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July, 31st. The basic materials company reported $0.37 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.33 by $0.04. The basic materials company earned $613 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $610.42 million. Valvoline had a net margin of 9.60% and a negative return on equity of 80.89%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 6.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.32 EPS. 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 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 brokerages 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 share price to reach $22.40 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.5% 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 trended very negative on Thursday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Valvoline earned a news impact score of -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the basic materials company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Valvoline.

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

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(VVV) raised $645 million in an initial public offering on Friday, September 23rd 2016. The company issued 30,000,000 shares at $20.00-$23.00 per share. BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan served 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 many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.22%), Winmill & CO. Inc. (0.07%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.04%), Bowling Portfolio Management LLC (0.03%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%) and Fox Run Management L.L.C. (0.01%). 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Winmill & CO. Inc., Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, Fox Run Management L.L.C., State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Cerebellum GP LLC, Old North State Trust LLC and Gateway Investment Advisers LLC. 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 $22.06.

Valvoline has a market capitalization of $4.15 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]