Vertex Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: VTNR) Is The Hottest Stock Right Now.

Vertex Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:VTNR) price closed higher on Monday, January 30, jumping 1.69% above its previous close.

A look at the daily price movement shows that the last close reads $7.11, with intraday deals fluctuated between $7.06 and $7.495. The company’s 5Y monthly beta was ticking 2.06. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $18.10 and 52-week low of $3.41. The stock added 20.30% on its value in the past month.

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Vertex Energy Inc., which has a market valuation of $551.65 million, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report Mar 06, 2023 – Mar 10, 2023. Analysts tracking VTNR have forecast the quarterly EPS to grow by 0.15 per share this quarter, while the same analysts predict the annual EPS to hit -$0.01 for the year 2023 and up to $2.07 for 2023. In this case, analysts estimate an annual EPS growth of 97.20% for the year and 20,800.00% for the next year.

On average, analysts have forecast the company’s revenue for the quarter will hit $913.67 million, with the likely lows of $825.5 million and highs of $1.05 billion. The average estimate suggests sales growth for the quarter will likely rise by 3,053.40% when compared to those recorded in the same quarter in the last financial year. Staying with the analyst view, there is a consensus estimate of $2.92 billion for the company’s annual revenue in 2022. Per this projection, the revenue is forecast to grow 2,425.00% above that which the company brought in 2022.

Revisions to the company’s EPS highlights a short term direction of a stock’s price movement, which in the last 7 days came up with no upward and no downward reviews. On the technical perspective front, indicators give VTNR a short term outlook of 50% Sell on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 50% Sell, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 75% Sell.

Here is a look at the average analyst rating for the stock as represented on a scale of 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock is strong buy or strong sell respectively. Specifically, 5 analysts have assigned VTNR a recommendation rating as follows: 2 rate it as a Hold; 3 advise Buy while 0 analyst(s) assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged the Vertex Energy Inc. (VTNR) stock as Underweight, with 0 recommending Sell. In general, analysts have rated the stock Overweight, a scenario likely to bolster investors out for an opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.

The overview shows that VTNR’s price is at present 8.92% off the SMA20 and 4.83% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 57.81, with weekly volatility standing at 6.60%. The indicator jumps to 6.23% when calculated based on the past 30 days. Vertex Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:VTNR)’s beta value is holding at 2.16, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.44. Considering analysts have assigned the stock a price target range of $7.50-$15.00 as the low and high respectively, we find the trailing 12-month average consensus price target to be $12.38. Based on this estimate, we see that current price is roughly -3.73% off the estimated low and -107.47% off the forecast high. Investors will no doubt be excited to see the share price fall to $13.50, which is the median consensus price, and at that level VTNR would be -86.72% from current price.

Turning out attention to how the Vertex Energy Inc. stock has performed in comparison to its peers in the industry, here’s what we find: VTNR’s stock is 1.69% on the day and 113.91% in the past 12 months, while Heritage-Crystal Clean Inc (HCCI) traded -0.27% in the last session and was positioned 34.33% up on its price 12 months ago. Also, Perma-Fix Environmental Services Inc. (PESI) showed down trend of -1.40% while its price kept floating at -35.18% over the past year. Elsewhere in the market, the S&P 500 Index has stumbled -1.30% in last trading session, with the Dow Jones Industrial also saw a negative session on the day with -0.77%.

An analysis of the Vertex Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:VTNR) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 2.70 million. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 2.46 million.

Current records show that the company has 75.59M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 0.50% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 54.80%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Oct 13, 2022, stood at 20.91 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 5.89. From this we can glean that short interest is 27.66% of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in October rose slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 19.83 million. But the 16.61% upside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of last trading, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.