Vista Oil Stock Forecast - Simple Exponential Smoothing

VIST Stock  USD 48.81  0.15  0.31%   
The Simple Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of Vista Oil Gas on the next trading day is expected to be 48.81 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.94 and the sum of the absolute errors of 56.44. Vista Stock Forecast is based on your current time horizon.
At this time the value of relative strength index of Vista Oil's share price is below 20 . This entails that the stock is significantly oversold. The fundamental principle of the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is to quantify the velocity at which market participants are driving the price of a financial instrument upwards or downwards.

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The successful prediction of Vista Oil's future price could yield a significant profit. We analyze noise-free headlines and recent hype associated with Vista Oil Gas, which may create opportunities for some arbitrage if properly timed. Below are the key fundamental drivers impacting Vista Oil's stock price prediction:
Quarterly Earnings Growth
0.75
EPS Estimate Next Quarter
18.6013
EPS Estimate Current Year
116.5828
EPS Estimate Next Year
93.1939
Wall Street Target Price
78.0741
Using Vista Oil hype-based prediction, you can estimate the value of Vista Oil Gas from the perspective of Vista Oil response to recently generated media hype and the effects of current headlines on its competitors. We also analyze overall investor sentiment towards Vista Oil using Vista Oil's stock options and short interest. It helps to benchmark the overall future attitude of investors towards Vista using crowd psychology based on the activity and movement of Vista Oil's stock price.

Vista Oil Short Interest

An investor who is long Vista Oil may also wish to track short interest. As short interest increases, investors should be becoming more worried about Vista Oil and may potentially protect profits, hedge Vista Oil with its derivative instruments, or be ready for some potential downside.
200 Day MA
44.7451
Short Percent
0.0398
Short Ratio
4.05
Shares Short Prior Month
4.6 M
50 Day MA
48.1882

Vista Oil Gas Hype to Price Pattern

Investor biases related to Vista Oil's public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in Vista. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding Vista can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around Vista Oil Gas. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.
Some investors profit by finding stocks that are overvalued or undervalued based on market sentiment. The correlation of Vista Oil's market sentiment to its price can help taders to make decisions based on the overall investors consensus about Vista Oil.

Vista Oil Implied Volatility

    
  0.54  
Vista Oil's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Vista Oil Gas stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Vista Oil's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Vista Oil stock will not fluctuate a lot when Vista Oil's options are near their expiration.
The Simple Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of Vista Oil Gas on the next trading day is expected to be 48.81 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.94 and the sum of the absolute errors of 56.44.

Vista Oil after-hype prediction price

    
  USD 48.82  
There is no one specific way to measure market sentiment using hype analysis or a similar predictive technique. This prediction method should be used in combination with more fundamental and traditional techniques such as stock price forecasting, technical analysis, analysts consensus, earnings estimates, and various momentum models.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of Vista Oil to cross-verify your projections.
Inventory Turnover is likely to drop to 27.42 in 2026. Payables Turnover is likely to drop to 0.98 in 2026. Net Income Applicable To Common Shares is likely to gain to about 325.5 M in 2026, whereas Common Stock Shares Outstanding is likely to drop slightly above 98 M in 2026.

Open Interest Against 2026-03-20 Vista Option Contracts

Although open interest is a measure utilized in the options markets, it could be used to forecast Vista Oil's spot prices because the number of available contracts in the market changes daily, and new contracts can be created or liquidated at will. Since open interest in Vista Oil's options reflects these daily shifts, investors could use the patterns of these changes to develop long and short-term trading strategies for Vista Oil stock based on available contracts left at the end of a trading day.
Please note that to derive more accurate forecasting about market movement from the current Vista Oil's open interest, investors have to compare it to Vista Oil's spot prices. As Ford's stock price increases, high open interest indicates that money is entering the market, and the market is strongly bullish. Conversely, if the price of Vista Oil is decreasing and there is high open interest, that is a sign that the bearish trend will continue, and investors may react by taking short positions in Vista. So, decreasing or low open interest during a bull market indicates that investors are becoming uncertain of the depth of the bullish trend, and a reversal in sentiment will likely follow.

Vista Oil Additional Predictive Modules

Most predictive techniques to examine Vista price help traders to determine how to time the market. We provide a combination of tools to recognize potential entry and exit points for Vista using various technical indicators. When you analyze Vista charts, please remember that the event formation may indicate an entry point for a short seller, and look at other indicators across different periods to confirm that a breakdown or reversion is likely to occur.
Vista Oil simple exponential smoothing forecast is a very popular model used to produce a smoothed price series. Whereas in simple Moving Average models the past observations for Vista Oil Gas are weighted equally, Exponential Smoothing assigns exponentially decreasing weights as Vista Oil Gas prices get older.

Vista Oil Simple Exponential Smoothing Price Forecast For the 5th of January

Given 90 days horizon, the Simple Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of Vista Oil Gas on the next trading day is expected to be 48.81 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.94, mean absolute percentage error of 2.33, and the sum of the absolute errors of 56.44.
Please note that although there have been many attempts to predict Vista Stock prices using its time series forecasting, we generally do not recommend using it to place bets in the real market. The most commonly used models for forecasting predictions are the autoregressive models, which specify that Vista Oil's next future price depends linearly on its previous prices and some stochastic term (i.e., imperfectly predictable multiplier).

Vista Oil Stock Forecast Pattern

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Vista Oil Forecasted Value

In the context of forecasting Vista Oil's Stock value on the next trading day, we examine the predictive performance of the model to find good statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios. Vista Oil's downside and upside margins for the forecasting period are 45.22 and 52.40, respectively. We have considered Vista Oil's daily market price to evaluate the above model's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that traditional linear or nonlinear forecasting models outperform artificial intelligence and frequency domain models to provide accurate forecasts consistently.
Market Value
48.81
48.81
Expected Value
52.40
Upside

Model Predictive Factors

The below table displays some essential indicators generated by the model showing the Simple Exponential Smoothing forecasting method's relative quality and the estimations of the prediction error of Vista Oil stock data series using in forecasting. Note that when a statistical model is used to represent Vista Oil stock, the representation will rarely be exact; so some information will be lost using the model to explain the process. AIC estimates the relative amount of information lost by a given model: the less information a model loses, the higher its quality.
AICAkaike Information Criteria117.1199
BiasArithmetic mean of the errors -0.2323
MADMean absolute deviation0.9407
MAPEMean absolute percentage error0.0206
SAESum of the absolute errors56.44
This simple exponential smoothing model begins by setting Vista Oil Gas forecast for the second period equal to the observation of the first period. In other words, recent Vista Oil observations are given relatively more weight in forecasting than the older observations.

Predictive Modules for Vista Oil

There are currently many different techniques concerning forecasting the market as a whole, as well as predicting future values of individual securities such as Vista Oil Gas. Regardless of method or technology, however, to accurately forecast the stock market is more a matter of luck rather than a particular technique. Nevertheless, trying to predict the stock market accurately is still an essential part of the overall investment decision process. Using different forecasting techniques and comparing the results might improve your chances of accuracy even though unexpected events may often change the market sentiment and impact your forecasting results.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Vista Oil's price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.
Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
45.2348.8252.41
Details
Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
43.9357.6361.22
Details
Bollinger
Band Projection (param)
LowMiddleHigh
45.2848.8452.40
Details
10 Analysts
Consensus
LowTargetHigh
71.0578.0786.66
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Other Forecasting Options for Vista Oil

For every potential investor in Vista, whether a beginner or expert, Vista Oil's price movement is the inherent factor that sparks whether it is viable to invest in it or hold it better. Vista Stock price charts are filled with many 'noises.' These noises can hugely alter the decision one can make regarding investing in Vista. Basic forecasting techniques help filter out the noise by identifying Vista Oil's price trends.

Vista Oil Related Equities

One of the popular trading techniques among algorithmic traders is to use market-neutral strategies where every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if one position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Below are some of the equities that can be combined with Vista Oil stock to make a market-neutral strategy. Peer analysis of Vista Oil could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Vista Oil by comparing valuation metrics with similar companies.
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Vista Oil Gas Technical and Predictive Analytics

The stock market is financially volatile. Despite the volatility, there exist limitless possibilities of gaining profits and building passive income portfolios. With the complexity of Vista Oil's price movements, a comprehensive understanding of forecasting methods that an investor can rely on to make the right move is invaluable. These methods predict trends that assist an investor in predicting the movement of Vista Oil's current price.

Vista Oil Market Strength Events

Market strength indicators help investors to evaluate how Vista Oil stock reacts to ongoing and evolving market conditions. The investors can use it to make informed decisions about market timing, and determine when trading Vista Oil shares will generate the highest return on investment. By undertsting and applying Vista Oil stock market strength indicators, traders can identify Vista Oil Gas entry and exit signals to maximize returns.

Vista Oil Risk Indicators

The analysis of Vista Oil's basic risk indicators is one of the essential steps in accurately forecasting its future price. The process involves identifying the amount of risk involved in Vista Oil's investment and either accepting that risk or mitigating it. Along with some essential techniques for forecasting vista stock prices, we also provide a set of basic risk indicators that can assist in the individual investment decision or help in hedging the risk of your existing portfolios.
Please note, the risk measures we provide can be used independently or collectively to perform a risk assessment. When comparing two potential investments, we recommend comparing similar equities with homogenous growth potential and valuation from related markets to determine which investment holds the most risk.

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