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Viva Energy Group Limited is an oil & gas refining & marketing business based in Australia. Viva Energy shares (VEA) are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and all prices are listed in Australian Dollars. Viva Energy has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $15.3 billion.
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Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Viva Energy's share price has had significant negative movement.
Its last market close was $1.78, which is 5.82% down on its pre-crash value of $1.89 and 58.22% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as $1.125.
If you had bought $1,000 worth of Viva Energy shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth $714.29 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth $1,059.53.
52-week range | $1.2602 - $2.2066 |
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50-day moving average | $1.9344 |
200-day moving average | $1.9301 |
Target price | $2.53 |
PE ratio | 50.7353 |
Dividend yield | $0.04 (2.33%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.034 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of A$1.78 on 2020-10-22
1 week (2021-01-08) | -1.11% |
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1 month (2020-12-15) | -12.75% |
3 months (2020-10-15) | 4.93% |
6 months (2020-07-15) | -15.04% |
1 year (2020-01-15) | -22.73% |
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2 years (2019-01-15) | -18.07% |
3 years (2018-01-11) | N/A |
5 years (2016-01-11) | N/A |
Valuing Viva Energy stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Viva Energy's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Viva Energy's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 51x. In other words, Viva Energy shares trade at around 51x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the P/E ratio for the ASX over the 12 months to December 2019 (32.14). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Viva Energy's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $106.4 million (£0.0 million).
The EBITDA is a measure of a Viva Energy's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Revenue TTM | $15.3 billion |
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Gross profit TTM | $1.3 billion |
Return on assets TTM | -0.44% |
Return on equity TTM | 2.03% |
Profit margin | 0.36% |
Book value | 1.647 |
Market capitalisation | $2.8 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 209.42% of net profits
Recently Viva Energy has paid out, on average, around 209.42% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 2.33% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Viva Energy shareholders could enjoy a 2.33% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Viva Energy's case, that would currently equate to about A$0.04 per share.
Viva Energy's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 5 October 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").
Viva Energy's shares were split on a 21:25 basis on 8 October 2020. So if you had owned 25 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 21 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Viva Energy shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 19% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Viva Energy shares which in turn could have impacted Viva Energy's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Viva Energy's shares have ranged in value from as little as $1.2602 up to $2.2066. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (AU average) beta is 1, while Viva Energy's is 1.1476. This would suggest that Viva Energy's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Viva Energy Group Limited operates as an energy company in Australia, Singapore, and Papua New Guinea. The company operates in three segments: Retail, Fuels and Marketing; Refining; and Supply, Corporate and Overheads. The Retail, Fuels and Marketing segment supplies and markets fuel products to a network of approximately 1,300 retail service stations, as well as to other retail operators and wholesalers. It is also involved in supplying fuel, lubricants, and specialty hydrocarbon products to commercial customers in the aviation, marine, transport, resources, and construction and manufacturing industries. This segment sells its products primarily under Shell and Viva Energy brands. The Refining segment owns and operates a refinery in Geelong, Victoria. It offers petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, aviation gasoline, gas, solvents, bitumen, and other specialty products. The Supply, Corporate and Overheads segment owns and manages an integrated supply chain of terminals, storage tanks, depots, pipelines, and distribution assets in Australia. Viva Energy Group Limited was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Docklands, Australia.
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