Viper Energy (VNOM)
Energy · oil and gas royalty trust / mineral interest holder · NASDAQ
Viper Energy is a Permian Basin-focused mineral and royalty owner that generates cash flow from third-party oil and gas production.
What Viper Energy does
Viper Energy is an oil and natural gas company that owns and acquires mineral and royalty interests in oil and natural gas properties. The company generates revenue by receiving royalty payments based on the production of oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids from its properties, which are operated by third-party companies. It focuses primarily on assets located in the Permian Basin.
Themes: energy exploration and production, Permian Basin, commodity price exposure, royalty income
Fundamentals
- Price$42.63 as of 2026-10-08 close
- Market cap$16.1B date unknown (no dated share count)
- 1-year return+11.3% 2025-10-08 close $38.31 → 2026-10-08 close $42.63
- P/E302.99 as of 2026-10-08
- Net margin-4.9% FY2025, SEC XBRL
- ROE-0.7% FY2025, SEC XBRL
- Debt / equity0.33 as of 2026-09-02
- Revenue growth (YoY)+62.0% FY2025 vs FY2024, SEC XBRL
- Revenue CAGR (3y)+29.8% SEC XBRL
- Beta0.71 as of 2026-09-02
- Last reported earnings2026-08-03 SEC EDGAR Form 8-K (Item 2.02)
Dividend: yield +6.3%; pays a dividend.
How VNOM compares in its sector
- price-to-earnings ratiotop 10% 108 covered Energy peers, as of 2026-10-08
- net profit marginbottom 25% 135 covered Energy peers, as of 2026-09-02
- operating marginbottom 25% 122 covered Energy peers, as of 2026-09-02
- return on equitymiddle range 143 covered Energy peers, as of 2026-09-02
- 3-year revenue CAGRtop 25% 137 covered Energy peers
- indicated dividend yieldtop 25% 101 covered Energy peers, as of 2026-09-02
Position among covered Energy companies that report each metric (minimum 5 peers). A relative position within our covered catalog — not a valuation, quality, or investment judgment. A higher percentile is simply a higher value (for P/E, more expensive on earnings — never "better"). Informational only.
Top 10 scores & list membership
VNOM is not currently in any published Top 10 list. Its scores are below.
Top 10 score
45.4 #976 of 1,379 scored · #65 of 78 in Energy
Growth 91st (3-year revenue CAGR 29.8%) and financial health 65th (debt to equity 0.3); weakest is capital return (1st, net share count bought back over the year -51.7).
Scores as of 8 Oct 2026. Each bar is a percentile: how this company ranked against every company the score ranked, 0–100. A list is a published formula and its output, not a recommendation. Method version 4.
Dividend coverage (FY2025)
Covered by reported results. In FY2025, VNOM's dividend was covered by reported results (operating-cash-flow payout 31%). This describes past coverage, not a forecast.
- Earnings payoutnot assessable earnings were not positive that year
- Operating-cash-flow payout31% dividends / operating cash flow — capital spending was not reported, so this does not subtract it
Coverage derived from reported SEC EDGAR XBRL figures for FY2025 (dividends paid vs. net income and free cash flow, same fiscal year). This describes PAST coverage for one fiscal year — it does not predict whether a dividend will be maintained, raised, or cut, and a one-year payout ratio can be distorted by non-recurring items. Informational only — not financial advice.
How Viper Energy looks technically
Viper Energy (VNOM) is trading 2.4% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend. Its 50-day average crossed below its 200-day average about 11 trading days ago — a "death cross", a bearish long-term signal. There is no clear trend right now — the price is choppy (ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 19, below the 25 that marks a real trend). Momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 53, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30). MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bullish about 2 trading days ago (its momentum flipped positive). It made a new 20-day low about 7 trading days ago. It is 16.6% below its highest point of the past year.
Trend
7
| Distance from the 200-day | it is trading 2.4% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend | -2.4% |
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| 50-day moving average | its average price over the last 50 trading days — a short-term trend line — is $42.97 | $42.97 |
| 200-day moving average | its average price over the last 200 trading days — the long-term trend line — is $43.69 | $43.69 |
| Swing structure | its recent peaks and dips disagree — one of them is rising while the other is not, so there is no clean up or down pattern in the swings | mixed — one of the two is not confirming |
| Last swing turn | its last significant turn was a swing low 7 calendar days ago — the swings before that are what the structure reading is measured on | 7 sessions |
| Since the 50/200 cross | its 50-day average crossed below its 200-day average about 11 trading days ago — a "death cross", a bearish long-term signal | 11 sessions |
| Trend strength (14-day ADX) | there is no clear trend right now — the price is choppy (ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 19, below the 25 that marks a real trend) | 19.4 |
Momentum
3
| 14-day RSI | momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 53, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30) | 53.1 |
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| Position in its 14-day range | it is trading right at the top of its 14-day range ($39.77 to $42.77) — its "stochastic" reading is 95 out of 100, where 0 would mean closing exactly at the 14-session low and 100 exactly at the high. This measures WHERE the price sits inside its recent range, which is a different question from the RSI beside it: RSI is a momentum gauge, measuring how FAST the price has been moving, so a stock can drift quietly to the bottom of its range with an ordinary RSI, or fall sharply and still sit in the middle. It has been climbing within that range over the last few sessions. | 95.2 |
| Since the MACD crossed zero | MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bullish about 2 trading days ago (its momentum flipped positive) | 2 sessions |
Range
12
| 52-week high | its highest closing price over the past year (about 252 trading days) was $51.13 | $51.13 |
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| From the 52-week high | it is 16.6% below its 52-week high (its highest price of the past year) | -16.6% |
| Above the 52-week low | it is 21.5% above its 52-week low (its lowest price of the past year) | +21.4% |
| Below the 52-week high | it is 16.6% below its highest point of the past year | 16.6% |
| Since a 20-day breakout | it made a new 20-day low about 7 trading days ago | 7 sessions |
| Since a 55-day breakout | it made a new 55-day low about 7 trading days ago | 7 sessions |
| All-time high | its highest closing price on record is $56.76 (set on 2024-11-25) | $56.76 |
| Given back of the 52-week move | over the past year its closes ranged ($35.84 to $50.95), and it has given back around half of its rise from last year’s low — 55% of it. Chart-watchers call 61.8%-65% given back the "golden pocket" — for this company that is $41.13 to $41.61. It is watched widely enough that orders cluster there, which is the honest reason it matters; it is not a forecast. | 55.1% |
| From the all-time high | it is 24.9% below its all-time high | -24.9% |
| Nearest price level | it is trading 0.9% below a resistance level at $43.03 — a price it turned at three times since 2025-06-13, most recently on 2026-03-10. Since 2024-10-08 it has 7 such levels below the current price and 9 above. Levels like these describe where the price has reversed or paused before; they are not a forecast of where it will go. | +0.9% |
| All-time low | its lowest closing price on record is $4.98 (set on 2020-03-23) | $4.98 |
| Above the all-time low | it is 756.0% above its all-time low | +756.0% |
Volatility
5
| Band width vs its own 6 months | day-to-day price swings are unusually wide versus its own recent history (wider than about 93% of the past ~6 months) | 93rd percentile |
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| Typical daily range | in a typical session it travels about $1.12 between its high and its low — about 2.6% of its price. That is its "average true range" over the last 14 sessions, which also counts the distance from the previous close, so a day that opens well away from yesterday counts as the large move it was | $1.12 |
| Bollinger bands (20-day, ±2σ) | most of its recent trading has stayed between about $38.64 and $45.13 — the "Bollinger bands", a range drawn two standard deviations either side of its 20-day average price, which widens when the stock gets more volatile and narrows when it settles | $38.64 – $41.88 – $45.13 |
| Typical daily range (% of price) | its price moves about 2.6% in a typical session — calmer than most companies we cover. This is the average gap between a session's high and low over the last 14 sessions, counting overnight moves, expressed against the current price so it can be compared with companies trading at any price | 2.6% |
| Stretch from the 200-day average | it is trading 1.0 daily range below its 200-day average price (2.4% below it in plain percentage terms) — a way of asking how far it has stretched from its own average in units of how far it normally moves in a day, so a calm company and a jumpy one can be compared on the same scale | 1.0 daily range below its 200-day average |
Volume
1
| Volume vs its 30-day average | trading volume is about normal versus its 30-day average | 1.53× |
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Analyst
2
| Change in the average price target | analysts have cut their average price target by 0.4% since the prior reading | -0.4% |
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| Change in the consensus rating | the analyst consensus rating is unchanged since the prior reading | unchanged |
Price gaps
2
| Gap at the open | it opened on 2026-10-08 1.5% above the previous session's close — an overnight gap, the part of the move that happened while the market was shut, and had not traded back through that level by the close | +1.5% |
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| Gap filled | a 3.0% gap down opened on 2026-08-03 has been "filled" 34 sessions ago — price traded back through the level the gap left behind, and it took 13 sessions to close | 34 sessions ago |
Price streaks
1
| Closing streak | it closed higher in its latest session, after a session that did not close higher — a single up day rather than a run | 1 session up |
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Relative strength
4
| vs market, 1 month | over the past 1 month this stock lagged the market by 6.1 percentage points (the stock lost 5.0% while the market gained 1.0%) | -6.1% |
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| vs market, 3 months | over the past 3 months this stock lagged the market by 4.7 percentage points (the stock lost 0.8% while the market gained 3.8%) | -4.7% |
| vs market, 6 months | over the past 6 months this stock lagged the market by 25.4 percentage points (the stock lost 7.9% while the market gained 17.5%) | -25.4% |
| vs market, 12 months | over the past 12 months this stock lagged the market by 3.7 percentage points (the stock gained 11.3% while the market gained 15.0%) | -3.7% |
Signal agreement
2
| Bullish technical signals | 1 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it is currently in a bullish state: MACD momentum is positive — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 1 of 9 |
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| Bearish technical signals | 5 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bearish state: a "death cross" — its 50-day average is below its 200-day, trading below its 200-day average, lagging the market over 6 months, near the top of its 14-day range (overbought), trading below the Ichimoku cloud — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 5 of 9 |
Trend (Ichimoku cloud)
1
| Vs the Ichimoku cloud | trading 1.0% below the Ichimoku cloud — a band drawn from where its own highs and lows sat up to 2026-09-01 and projected forward over today's price, the side traders read as an established downtrend, with the band above acting as the level that would have to be cleared. The band itself is thin, spanning 1.8% of the share price, which is taken to mean a barrier that gives way easily. | -1.0% |
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Volume-weighted price
2
| Vs this year’s average price paid | the price is 3% below the average price paid so far this year, so the typical buyer over that stretch is under water. That average is $43.95 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 190 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | -3.0% |
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| Vs the average paid since it last reported | the price is sitting right on the average price paid since it last reported on 2026-08-03 (its 8-K), so the typical buyer over that stretch is roughly break-even. That average is $42.60 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 48 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | +0.1% |
Double bottom, bullish — forming · entry $45.96 · 43 sessions in
Price levels it has turned at before
VNOM last closed at $42.63 on 2026-10-08. Since 2024-10-08 it has turned at 7 prices below its last close and 9 above; the 3 nearest below and the 3 nearest above are listed, nearest first.
| Level | Side | Distance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| $43.03 | Resistance | 0.9% above the last close | turned there three times · 2025-06-13 to 2026-03-10 |
| $42.06 | Support | 1.3% below the last close | turned there four times · 2025-04-17 to 2026-07-28 |
| $44.17 | Resistance | 3.6% above the last close | turned there six times · 2025-05-13 to 2026-09-04 |
| $40.45 | Support | 5.1% below the last close | turned there four times · 2025-08-29 to 2026-08-07 |
| $39.33 | Support | 7.7% below the last close | turned there 10 times · 2025-03-10 to 2026-10-01 |
| $45.96 | Resistance | 7.8% above the last close | turned there six times · 2025-01-29 to 2026-09-15 |
A level is a price this company reversed or paused at more than once — they describe past behaviour, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Wave structure
No Elliott-wave labelling currently fits its swings: the recent highs and lows do not satisfy the three rules a five-wave count has to obey, so there is no count to show rather than a count we are unsure about.
Read from daily closes as of 2026-10-08.
An Elliott-wave count describes the swings already printed and the level that would disprove it. It is not a forecast, a target, or advice.
Screens: Trading below the 200-day moving average · Recent death cross (50-day crossed below 200-day) · MACD just crossed bullish (12/26/9) · trendless / choppy (low ADX) · lagging the market · At the top of its 14-day range (stochastic above 80) | Learn: moving average · golden cross · adx · rsi · macd · breakout · fifty two week high low
Based on daily closing prices as of 2026-10-08. Describes past price behavior only — informational, not financial advice.
Analyst consensus
- Consensus ratingStrong Buy (1.25 mean, 1=Strong Buy…5=Strong Sell) — 20 analysts
- Mean price target$54.95 range $45.00 – $65.00; median $55.50
Analyst estimates, as of 2026-10-07. These are third-party analyst opinions and price targets, aggregated — not a recommendation, prediction, or advice from stocks-llm. Informational only.
Analyst EPS estimate for VNOM
- Consensus EPS estimate$0.6452 next reporting period, as of 2026-10-07
- Estimate change, 30 days+$0.0006 (+0.1%) from $0.6446, on 2026-09-02, 35-day window
- Readings revised upward38% of 8 comparable readings
The consensus estimate for the next reporting period, and how it has moved between readings of that SAME period. A change is measured only between readings estimating one period — when a company reports, the consensus moves to the next quarter and the two numbers are not comparable. Informational only, not a forecast and not advice.
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Dependence on third-party operators for drilling, production, and royalty payments.","Significant exposure to fluctuations in commodity prices for oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids.","Limited control over development activities and capital expenditures on mineral and royalty acreage."]
What changed in the latest 10-Q
AI-assisted comparison of VNOM's 10-Q filed 2026-05-06 against the prior one filed 2025-11-05.
Management's Discussion & Analysis (MD&A)
- Added:
- Newer filing (2026-05-06) includes reference to audited financial statements and Form 10-K for year ended December 31, 2025.
- Newer filing (2026-05-06) includes explicit statement that discussion contains 'forward-looking statements' with disclaimer about actual results differing materially.
- Removed:
- Older filing (2025-11-05) contained detailed subsection on 'Liquidity and Capital Resources—Overview of Sources and Uses of Cash' discussing commodity price derivatives, credit risk, and interest rate risk; this content is absent from newer filing.
- Older filing (2025-11-05) contained detailed discussion of derivative positions, net asset derivative values ($11 million), sensitivity analysis (10% increase/decrease scenarios), and commodity price hedging strategies; not present in newer filing.
- Older filing (2025-11-05) contained detailed 'Credit Risk' section discussing royalty income concentration and purchaser credit exposure; not in newer filing.
- Older filing (2025-11-05) contained detailed 'Interest Rate Risk' section with specific terms of 2025 Revolving Credit Facility and Term Loan rate calculations and margins; not in newer filing.
- Older filing (2025-11-05) contained detailed 'ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES' section with evaluation of disclosure controls and discussion of Sitio Acquisition integration; not in newer filing.
- Older filing (2025-11-05) contained 'PART II. OTHER INFORMATION' and 'ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS' section; not in newer filing.
- Reworded:
- Item numbering format changed from 'Item 2' (older) to 'ITEM 2' (newer).
- Newer filing provides generic introductory language to MD&A section; older filing provided substantive content discussing specific financial matters.
- Notes:
- The two filings appear to be from different reporting periods (Q1 2026 vs Q3 2025) and may represent different sections or excerpts of their respective MD&A documents.
- Newer filing excerpt appears to show only the opening/introductory paragraph of MD&A, while older filing excerpt shows substantive middle sections, making direct comparison of content limited.
Risk Factors
The two filings could not be meaningfully compared for this section.
AI-assisted comparison of two SEC filing sections. It describes wording and theme changes only, makes no materiality, legal, or investment judgement, and is not financial advice. Informational only — not financial advice.
Insider activity (SEC Form 4)
No open-market insider purchases or sales recorded in the last 90 days, of which we have read Form 4 filings through 2026-10-04. The 5 days since 2026-10-04 have not been checked yet.
Most recent open-market transaction: 2026-03-19. Based on Form 4 filings read through 2026-10-04; anything filed since is not yet included.
View full insider trading history → View SEC Form 3/4/5 filingsAsk about VNOM's insider activity →
Only open-market purchases (SEC code P) and sales (code S) are counted here. Option exercises, vesting/awards, gifts, and shares withheld for taxes are excluded — they are compensation or mechanical, not open-market conviction. Sales may be planned and non-discretionary (e.g. a Rule 10b5-1 plan) and are not necessarily bearish; open-market buying is not a recommendation to buy. Informational only — not financial advice.
U.S. House trading disclosures
U.S. House members publicly disclose their own, their spouse's, and dependent children's stock transactions under the STOCK Act. We hold 3 matched disclosures for VNOM from U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Report filings.
U.S. House trading disclosures →Institutional ownership (13F)
6 institutional 13F filers reported holding VNOM as of 2026-06-30 (quarter-end position, filed within 45 days).
- Distinct 13F filers 6
- Reported shares held 31,143,155
- Reported value $1,320,469,747
reported quarterly holdings change (2026-03-31 → 2026-06-30): 1 new, 3 increased, 2 decreased, 0 exited. Change counts cover only managers that filed 13F reports in BOTH quarters, derived between two quarter-end snapshots — not same-day trades; a single manager is never said to have "bought" or "sold".
Institutional holdings are quarter-end long positions reported on SEC Form 13F-HR, filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends — they are delayed, are not real-time trades, exclude short positions and most non-US securities, and are not investment advice. Any increase/decrease is a reported change between two quarterly snapshots, not a same-day purchase or sale. These are quarter-end snapshots from the 13F filings on SEC EDGAR, filed within 45 days — not real-time, and any change is a difference between two quarterly reports, not a same-day trade. Informational only — not financial advice.
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Short interest (FINRA)
VNOM had 9,339,431 shares of reported short interest as of the 2026-09-15 FINRA settlement date (delayed, bi-monthly; not real-time).
Short interest as a percent of shares outstanding is not shown for VNOM because we do not hold a verified share count to divide it by. The reported figures above are unaffected.
- Reported short interest (shares) 9,339,431
- Prior settlement (shares) 10,151,564
- Reported change -8%
- Days to cover (reported) 8.17
Reported to FINRA as of the 2026-09-15 settlement date. Short interest is reported to FINRA and published on a delayed, bi-monthly schedule (as of a settlement date, disseminated roughly eight business days later) — it is NOT real-time, does not cover every venue or all US trading, and is not a short-squeeze prediction or investment advice. Days-to-cover is the value FINRA reports; percent of float is not shown because the source file carries no share-count denominator — where a percent appears it is of shares OUTSTANDING, the larger base, and is therefore a floor on percent of float. Informational only — not financial advice.
Competitors & peers
- Black Stone Minerals (BSM)
- Kimbell Royalty Partners (KRP)
- Texas Pacific Land (TPL)
- Dorchester Minerals (DMLP)
- Chord Energy (CHRD)
- Diamondback Energy (FANG)
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Frequently asked questions
What does Viper Energy (VNOM) do?
Viper Energy is an oil and natural gas company that owns and acquires mineral and royalty interests in oil and natural gas properties. The company generates revenue by receiving royalty payments based on the production of oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids from its properties, which are operated by third-party companies. It focuses primarily on assets located in the Permian Basin.
What sector is Viper Energy (VNOM) in?
Viper Energy (VNOM) is classified in the Energy sector. Its industry is oil and gas royalty trust / mineral interest holder. It trades on NASDAQ.
Does VNOM pay a dividend?
Yes — Viper Energy (VNOM) pays a dividend, with an indicated yield of about 6.34% (market data, as of 2026-09-02). Informational only — not financial advice.
Who are Viper Energy's (VNOM) competitors?
Notable peers of Viper Energy (VNOM) include Black Stone Minerals, Kimbell Royalty Partners, Texas Pacific Land, Dorchester Minerals and Chord Energy. This peer set is informational only — not financial advice.
Has there been recent U.S. House stock trading in VNOM?
Yes — we hold 3 matched STOCK Act disclosures for VNOM from U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Report filings. These are legally-required disclosures (often filed 30–45 days after the trade), may belong to a U.S. House member, their spouse, or a dependent child, and are not an indicator of company performance or investment advice.
Is Viper Energy (VNOM) overbought or oversold right now?
Viper Energy (VNOM) is currently neither overbought nor oversold — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 53, in the neutral middle (as of 2026-10-08). RSI describes recent price momentum, not a forecast — informational only, not financial advice.
Where does stocks-llm's data on VNOM come from?
Fundamentals come from SEC XBRL company filings for the figures marked with a fiscal year, and market data, as of 2026-09-02 for the rest; prices are market data, as of 2026-09-02; company filings and profile facts come from SEC EDGAR. All figures are delayed daily-close data shown with their as-of date — informational only, not financial advice.
Fundamentals: SEC XBRL company filings for the figures marked with a fiscal year, and market data, as of 2026-09-02 for the rest. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-10-08.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & market data, shown with their as-of date.