VRTS Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

A technique commonly used by dividend investors to value dividend-issuing stocks is the Dividend Discount Model (DDM), which seeks to determine a fair share price based on the dividend provided by the company relative to a number of other company-specific factors. Regarding Virtus Investment Partners Inc, the dividend discount model StockNews created for the company implies a negative return of 71.29%. To help understand and contextualize the model's evaluation of VRTS, investors may wish to consider are:

• In comparison to other stocks in the Financial Services sector, VRTS provides shareholders with a dividend yield greater than merely 20.43% such stocks.
• Compared to other dividend issuers in the small-sized market cap category, VRTS has a beta lower than 27.87% of them.
• In terms of opportunity, VRTS's provides a return of -71.29% based on the forecast of the dividend discount model we used relative to its current share price; this is a better return than merely 19.1% of all stocks we measured with our dividend discount model.

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