Valvoline - VVV Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Valvoline in the last year. There are currently 4 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" VVV shares.
View VVV analyst ratings or view top-rated stocks.

5 brokers have issued 12 month target prices for Valvoline's shares. Their VVV share price forecasts range from $35.00 to $40.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $37.75 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 27.3% from the stock's current price.
View analysts price targets for VVV or view top-rated stocks among Wall Street analysts.

Valvoline's stock was trading at $37.29 at the beginning of the year. Since then, VVV stock has decreased by 20.5% and is now trading at $29.65.
View the best growth stocks for 2022 here.

Valvoline saw a drop in short interest during the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 3,510,000 shares, a drop of 22.3% from the June 15th total of 4,520,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,480,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.4 days. Approximately 2.0% of the shares of the company are short sold.
View Valvoline's Short Interest.

The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 2nd 2022.
View our VVV earnings forecast.

Valvoline Inc. (NYSE:VVV) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November, 3rd. The basic materials company reported $0.50 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.49 by $0.01. The basic materials company earned $835 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $849.30 million. Valvoline had a net margin of 12.30% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 202.75%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.46 earnings per share.

Valvoline announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 20th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, August 31st will be given a dividend of $0.125 per share on Thursday, September 15th. This represents a $0.50 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.69%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, August 30th.
Read our dividend analysis for VVV.

Valvoline (NYSE:VVV) pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.71%. The dividend payout ratio is 20.83%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, VVV will have a dividend payout ratio of 26.88% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
Read our dividend analysis for VVV.

Valvoline issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Wednesday, August, 10th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.07-$2.15 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.11. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.64 billion-$3.70 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.66 billion.

133 employees have rated Valvoline Chief Executive Officer Samuel J. Mitchell, Jr on Glassdoor.com. Samuel J. Mitchell, Jr has an approval rating of 75% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Valvoline investors own include Advance Auto Parts (AAP), VEREIT (VER), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Pfizer (PFE), Ashland Global (ASH), AbbVie (ABBV), AT&T (T), Ford Motor (F), Virtu Financial (VIRT) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

(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 acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Scotiabank, BTIG, Mizuho Securities, PNC Capital Markets and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey were co-managers.

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

Valvoline's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Scharf Investments LLC (2.45%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.56%), Loomis Sayles & Co. L P (0.56%), Leeward Investments LLC MA (0.44%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.40%) and Rhumbline Advisers (0.30%). Insiders that own company stock include Anthony R Puckett, Craig A Moughler, Frances E Lockwood, Heidi J Matheys, Jamal K Muashsher, Julie Marie O'daniel and Thomas A Gerrald II.
View institutional ownership trends.

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

One share of VVV stock can currently be purchased for approximately $29.65.

Valvoline (NYSE:VVV) has a market capitalization of $5.25 billion and generates $2.98 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $420 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.40 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 9,800 workers across the globe.

Valvoline's mailing address is 100 VALVOLINE WAY, LEXINGTON KY, 40509. The official website for the company is www.valvoline.com. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at (859) 357-7777, via email at scornett@valvoline.com, or via fax at 859-357-2686.