VIPER ENERGY, INC.
At today's price, VIPER ENERGY, INC. (VNOM) is priced for +19.5% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
- Viper Energy is a Permian mineral and royalty company, a subsidiary of Diamondback Energy. It owns the rock and collects a percentage of revenue from every barrel produced on its acreage without paying any drilling cost, which is why its operating margin runs near 88%. - Q1 2026 was a record quarter: royalty income of $496 million more than doubled year over year, production rose 128% to about 130,711 barrels of oil equivalent a day, and EPS of $1.22 beat the $0.53 consensus by 171%, driven b
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471 institutional managers reported holding VNOM in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 96 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Capital Group (American Funds), Vanguard Group, BlackRock, among others. On the short side, 8.6M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (4.8 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (2 and counting). Cash returned over the past three years: $732.00M in dividends and $100.00M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at VNOM over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 13 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
VNOM's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-06 | -2.3% | -1.5% |
| 2026-02-26 | -0.3% | +6.3% |
| 2026-05-07 | +0.1% | pending |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
VNOM's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-02 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-06-15 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-05-19 (items 5.03, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-05-04 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-04 (items 1.01, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 28, 2026
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