Williams-Sonoma, Inc (WSM) Clearly Signals Buy-Into the Stock: Don’t ignore the signals

With 2.04 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.87 million shares. During the session, the Specialty Retail company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $173.8525 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $171.17. The 52-week range on WSM shows that it touched its highest point at $181.42 and its lowest point at $90.87 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $171.17. With its current market cap of 20.78 billion, WSM has annualized dividend of $3.17 while the current yield stands at 1.85%. WSM paid its most recent dividend on 1729209600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1729209600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.81.

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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 WSM was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.09%, but this was up by 29.38% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 29.00% while six-month performance rose 18.88%. The stock gained 86.27% in the past year, while it has gained 69.88% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WSM yields 8.46 with Next year EPS estimates of 8.47. For the next quarter, that number is 2.89. This implies an EPS growth rate of 12.83% for this year and 1.07% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 10.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 29.13%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 128.29 million WSM shares are outstanding with a float of 118.47 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 14.07 million, which was 1114.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Ms. Laura J. Alber as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Jeffrey E. Howie serves as its Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.99575996 of WSM’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 2024-07-28, WSM reported revenue of $1800668000.0 and operating income of $320643000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $379036000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.96.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for WSM since 14 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 2 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 8 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 WSM analysts setting a high price target of 195.0 and a low target of 123.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 168.506. Based on these targets, WSM could surge 13.78% to reach the target high and fall by -28.23% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -1.68% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $7.30938 being high and $7.19886 being low. For WSM, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $7.25412. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $1.61. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.96 and the low estimate is $1.55. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.72.