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VMware, Inc is a software—infrastructure business based in the US. VMware shares (VMW) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. VMware employs 29,450 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$11.5 billion.
Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, VMware's share price has had significant negative movement.
Its last market close was USD$152.61, which is 4.54% down on its pre-crash value of USD$159.87 and 77.45% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$86.
If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of VMware shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$708.46 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 USD$1,022.49.
Latest market close | USD$152.61 |
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52-week range | USD$86 - USD$163.17 |
50-day moving average | USD$143.4682 |
200-day moving average | USD$143.2216 |
Wall St. target price | USD$174.43 |
PE ratio | 37.2311 |
Dividend yield | N/A (17.59%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$3.756 |
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Historical closes compared with the last close of $152.61
1 week (2021-01-10) | N/A |
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1 month (2020-12-21) | 7.30% |
3 months (2020-10-21) | 1.95% |
6 months (2020-07-21) | 6.41% |
1 year (2020-01-17) | N/A |
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2 years (2019-01-17) | N/A |
3 years (2018-01-17) | N/A |
5 years (2016-01-17) | N/A |
Valuing VMware stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of VMware's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
VMware's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 37x. In other words, VMware shares trade at around 37x 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.
VMware's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.1071. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into VMware's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
VMware's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$2.4 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a VMware's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Revenue TTM | USD$11.5 billion |
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Operating margin TTM | 15.37% |
Gross profit TTM | USD$9 billion |
Return on assets TTM | 4.5% |
Return on equity TTM | 22.16% |
Profit margin | 13.76% |
Book value | $20.156 |
Market capitalisation | USD$58.8 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
There are currently 8.7 million VMware shares held short by investors – that's known as VMware's "short interest". This figure is 21% up from 7.2 million last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting VMware shares can be evaluated.
VMware's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of VMware shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of VMware shares traded daily (recently around 1.0 million). VMware's SIR currently stands at 8.7. In other words for every 100,000 VMware shares traded daily on the market, roughly 8700 shares are currently held short.
However VMware's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of VMware shares, or, against the total number of tradable VMware shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case VMware's short interest could be expressed as 0.02% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 VMware shares in existence, roughly 20 shares are currently held short) or 0.131% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable VMware shares, roughly 131 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 VMware.
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