You might want to take a look at Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) now

With 22.34 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 22.03 million shares. During the session, the Pharmaceutical Retailers company that operates in wider Healthcare sector, reached to the highest price of $8.68 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $8.25. The 52-week range on WBA shows that it touched its highest point at $27.05 and its lowest point at $8.20 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $10.21. With its current market cap of 7.17 billion, WBA has annualized dividend of $1.00 while the current yield stands at 12.06%. WBA paid its most recent dividend on 1731888000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731888000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.64.

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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 WBA was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -7.99%, but this was down by -20.67% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -20.21% while six-month performance fell -50.30%. The stock lost -60.93% in the past year, while it has lost -68.25% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WBA yields -10.01 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.46. For the next quarter, that number is 0.40. This implies an EPS growth rate of -46.64% for this year and -5.00% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 864.00 million WBA shares are outstanding with a float of 710.05 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 87.43 million, which was 1011.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Stefano Pessina as the firm’s Executive Chairman of the Board, Mr. Manmohan Mahajan serves as its Executive VP & Global CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.61736 of WBA’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-08-31, WBA reported revenue of $37547000000.0 and operating income of -$695000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $87000000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for WBA since 11 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 6 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. With WBA analysts setting a high price target of 20.0 and a low target of 7.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 10.8125. Based on these targets, WBA could surge 141.25% to reach the target high and fall by -15.56% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 30.43% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.89502 being high and $2.80518 being low. For WBA, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.84511. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.71. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.65 and the low estimate is $0.47. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.53.