Let’s look at the key reasons that are pushing Valvoline Inc (VVV) to new highs

A new trading day began on Monday, with Valvoline Inc (NYSE: VVV) stock price up 3.63% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $37.69. VVV’s price has ranged from $33.86 to $48.26 over the past 52 weeks.

Consumer Cyclical Sector giant saw their annual sales slid by -1.87% over the last five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 3.03%. With a float of $127.55 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $128.50 million.

The firm has a total of 11500 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 38.22%, operating margin of 22.68%, and the pretax margin is 17.52%.

Valvoline Inc (VVV) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock

As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Auto & Truck Dealerships Industry. The insider ownership of Valvoline Inc is 0.64%, while institutional ownership is 97.94%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 27 ’24, was worth 99,100. In this transaction President & CEO of this company bought 2,500 shares at a rate of $39.64, taking the stock ownership to the 38,428 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 25 ’24, when Company’s Director bought 10,000 for $39.50, making the entire transaction worth $395,000. This insider now owns 26,437 shares in total.

Valvoline Inc (VVV) Recent Fiscal highlights

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.37 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 3.03% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 29.00% during the next five years compared to 7.97% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Valvoline Inc (NYSE: VVV) Trading Performance Indicators

Here are Valvoline Inc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.61. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.10. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 123.20.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.62, a number that is poised to hit 0.30 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.93 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Valvoline Inc (VVV)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Valvoline Inc, VVV], we can find that recorded value of 1.67 million was better than the volume posted last year of 1.21 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 22.65%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.06.

During the past 100 days, Valvoline Inc’s (VVV) raw stochastic average was set at 16.37%, which indicates a significant decrease from 29.10% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 46.13% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 32.47% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $40.84, while its 200-day Moving Average is $42.07. Now, the first resistance to watch is $39.64. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $40.21. The third major resistance level sits at $41.13. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $38.15, it is likely to go to the next support level at $37.23. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $36.66.

Valvoline Inc (NYSE: VVV) Key Stats

With a market capitalization of 5.01 billion, the company has a total of 128,373K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 1,619 M while annual income is 211,500 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 435,500 K while its latest quarter income was 92,300 K.