With 5.19 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.31 million shares. The 52-week range on WSC shows that it touched its highest point at $47.91 and its lowest point at $29.73 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $43.11. With its current market cap of 5.56 billion, WSC has annualized dividend of $0.07 while the current yield stands at 0.23%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.23.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of WSC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -10.88%, but this was down by -15.36% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -20.76% while six-month performance fell -21.38%. The stock lost -36.95% in the past year, while it has lost -9.42% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WSC yields 0.15 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.99. For the next quarter, that number is 0.29. This implies an EPS growth rate of -0.25% for this year and 22.57% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 183.56 million WSC shares are outstanding with a float of 178.47 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for WSC since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.64854 being high and $1.57983 being low. For WSC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.59016. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.4 and the low estimate is $0.33. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.36.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded WSC stock several times over the past three months with 0 Buys and 0 Sells. In these transactions, 0 shares were bought while 0 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has remained unchanged to 0 while that of sell transactions has remained unmoved to 0 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 0 while 0 shares were sold.
