- Vistra Corp. (NYSE:VST) has characteristics which have been historically associated with poor future stock performance. VST is overpriced and has negative EPS revisions when compared to other Utilities stocks, to the point that it gets a Sell rating from our Quant rating system. Stocks rated Sell or worse by our Quant rating system have massively underperformed the S&P 500, as this article will describe.
- The company has P/E Non-GAAP (TTM) of 41.35 while the Utilities sector median is 19.79.
- Due to these factors our quant model has rated Vistra Corp. as Sell and the company has an overall rank of 89 out of 696 in the Utilities sector. Compared to the S&P 500, stocks rated Sell or worse were down 20% on average per year over the last 10 years.
- If you are looking for alternatives to Vistra Corp. (NYSE:VST) see our top rated Utilities sector stocks by quant rating. Our top rated stocks have beaten the S&P 500 by 1300% over the last 10 years.
- The Sell warnings are based on our Quant Ratings, a systematic quantitative model which generates Seeking Alpha’s Sell ratings. For information about Quant Ratings, backtesting and its limitations, please read more here.
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