Veralto (NYSE:VLTO) Updates FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Veralto (NYSE:VLTO) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of 3.600-3.700 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 3.710. The company issued revenue guidance of -. Veralto also updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 0.840-0.880 EPS.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several research firms have recently issued reports on VLTO. Jefferies Financial Group initiated coverage on Veralto in a report on Thursday, December 12th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $125.00 target price for the company. Stifel Nicolaus reduced their price objective on Veralto from $117.00 to $116.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, January 24th. Royal Bank of Canada raised their target price on Veralto from $108.00 to $111.00 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research report on Friday, October 25th. Finally, Citigroup cut their price target on shares of Veralto from $118.00 to $116.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, January 13th. Six analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and five have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $113.18.

Veralto Price Performance

NYSE:VLTO traded down $0.08 during midday trading on Tuesday, hitting $101.09. The company had a trading volume of 2,065,545 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,343,766. The company has a market capitalization of $25.00 billion, a PE ratio of 31.20, a P/E/G ratio of 4.35 and a beta of 1.06. The company has a quick ratio of 1.87, a current ratio of 2.13 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.35. Veralto has a 52-week low of $75.05 and a 52-week high of $115.00. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $103.67 and its 200-day moving average price is $106.36.

Veralto (NYSE:VLTO) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, February 4th. The company reported $0.95 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.90 by $0.05. Veralto had a return on equity of 52.85% and a net margin of 15.69%. As a group, research analysts expect that Veralto will post 3.48 earnings per share for the current year.

Veralto Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, January 31st. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, December 31st were paid a $0.11 dividend. This is a boost from Veralto’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.09. This represents a $0.44 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.44%. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, December 31st. Veralto’s payout ratio is 13.58%.

Veralto Company Profile

Veralto Corporation provides water analytics, water treatment, marking and coding, and packaging and color services worldwide. It operates through two segments, Water Quality (WQ) and Product Quality & Innovation (PQI). The WQ segment offers precision instrumentation and water treatment technologies to measure, analyze, and treat water in residential, commercial, municipal, industrial, research, and natural resource applications through the Hach, Trojan Technologies, and ChemTreat brands.