Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS) Stock Price, News & Analysis

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Virtus Investment Partners in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" VRTS shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in VRTS, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Virtus Investment Partners' stock. Their VRTS share price targets range from $199.00 to $275.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $246.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 12.5% from the stock's current price.
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Virtus Investment Partners' stock was trading at $241.76 at the start of the year. Since then, VRTS stock has decreased by 9.6% and is now trading at $218.58.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, April 26th 2024.
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Virtus Investment Partners will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, April 26th at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRTS) posted its quarterly earnings data on Friday, February, 2nd. The closed-end fund reported $6.11 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $5.96 by $0.15. The closed-end fund earned $214.59 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $196.20 million. Virtus Investment Partners had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 18.83% and a net margin of 15.45%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $5.17 earnings per share.

Virtus Investment Partners declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 22nd. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, April 30th will be given a dividend of $1.90 per share on Wednesday, May 15th. This represents a $7.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.48%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, April 29th.
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Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ:VRTS) pays an annual dividend of $7.60 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.46%. The dividend payout ratio is 42.91%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, VRTS will have a dividend payout ratio of 26.08% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ:VRTS) stock in their portfolio include ETC 6 Meridian Small Cap Equity ETF (SIXS) and WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Quality Dividend Growth Fund (DGRS).Syntax Stratified SmallCap ETF (SSLY).

8 employees have rated Virtus Investment Partners Chief Executive Officer George R. Aylward on Glassdoor.com. George R. Aylward has an approval rating of 62% among the company's employees. This puts George R. Aylward in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Virtus Investment Partners' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.05%). Insiders that own company stock include Barry M Mandinach, Stephen T Zarrilli, W Howard Morris and William Patrick Bradley III.
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