How to buy Vicor Corporation stock

Vicor Corporation is an electronic components business based in the US. Vicor Corporation shares (VICR) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Vicor Corporation employs 993 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$275.4 million.

How to buy shares in Vicor Corporation

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Vicor Corporation. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: VICR. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Vicor Corporation reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. Weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Vicor Corporation, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Vicor Corporation. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Vicor Corporation share price

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Vicor Corporation shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-11-19.

52-week range	USD$30.42 - USD$90.88
50-day moving average	USD$81.3289
200-day moving average	USD$74.9871
Wall St. target price	USD$89.6
PE ratio	434.8333
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.182

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Is Vicor Corporation under- or over-valued?

Valuing Vicor Corporation stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Vicor Corporation's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Vicor Corporation's P/E ratio

Vicor Corporation's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 435x. In other words, Vicor Corporation shares trade at around 435x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Vicor Corporation's EBITDA

Vicor Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$17.8 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Vicor Corporation's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Vicor Corporation financials

Revenue TTM	USD$275.4 million
Operating margin TTM	2.52%
Gross profit TTM	USD$123 million
Return on assets TTM	1.4%
Return on equity TTM	2.98%
Profit margin	2.92%
Book value	$7.794
Market capitalisation	USD$3.4 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Vicor Corporation shares

There are currently 732,132 Vicor Corporation shares held short by investors – that's known as Vicor Corporation's "short interest". This figure is 10.3% down from 816,330 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Vicor Corporation shares can be evaluated.

Vicor Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Vicor Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Vicor Corporation shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Vicor Corporation shares traded daily (recently around 131206.4516129). Vicor Corporation's SIR currently stands at 5.58. In other words for every 100,000 Vicor Corporation shares traded daily on the market, roughly 5580 shares are currently held short.

However Vicor Corporation's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Vicor Corporation shares, or, against the total number of tradable Vicor Corporation shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Vicor Corporation's short interest could be expressed as 0.02% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Vicor Corporation shares in existence, roughly 20 shares are currently held short) or 0.0333% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Vicor Corporation shares, roughly 33 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Vicor Corporation.

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Vicor Corporation share dividends

We're not expecting Vicor Corporation to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Vicor Corporation's shares ever split?

Vicor Corporation's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 19 September 1995. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Vicor Corporation shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Vicor Corporation shares which in turn could have impacted Vicor Corporation's share price.

Vicor Corporation share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Vicor Corporation's shares have ranged in value from as little as $30.42 up to $90.88. 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 (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Vicor Corporation's is 0.9059. This would suggest that Vicor Corporation's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Vicor Corporation overview

Vicor Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets modular power components and power systems for converting electrical power in the United States, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company offers a range of brick-format DC-DC converters; complementary components; and input and output voltage, and output power products, as well as electrical and mechanical accessories. It also provides custom power systems solutions. The company serves independent manufacturers of electronic devices, original equipment manufacturers, and their contract manufacturers in the aerospace and aviation, defense electronics, industrial automation and equipment, instrumentation, test equipment, solid state lighting, telecommunications and networking infrastructure, and vehicles and transportation markets. Vicor Corporation was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Vicor Corporation is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 33.098% of Vicor Corporation shares are held by insiders and 50.529% by institutions.

• How many people work for Vicor Corporation?

  Latest data suggests 993 work at Vicor Corporation.

• When does the fiscal year end for Vicor Corporation?

  Vicor Corporation's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Vicor Corporation based?

  Vicor Corporation's address is: 25 Frontage Road, Andover, MA, United States, 01810

• What is Vicor Corporation's ISIN number?

  Vicor Corporation's international securities identification number is: US9258151029

• What is Vicor Corporation's CUSIP number?

  Vicor Corporation's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 925815102