With 1.86 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.98 million shares. During the session, the Rental & Leasing Services company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $36.2 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $35.38. The 52-week range on WSC shows that it touched its highest point at $52.16 and its lowest point at $32.57 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $43.67. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.40.
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 up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.51%, but this was up by 0.42% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -0.94% while six-month performance fell -10.95%. The stock lost -15.86% in the past year, while it has gained 7.65% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WSC yields 0.11 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.82. For the next quarter, that number is 0.46. This implies an EPS growth rate of -6.53% for this year and 14.50% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 187.05 million WSC shares are outstanding with a float of 179.65 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 11.76 million, which was 637.0000000000001 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Bradley Lee Soultz as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Timothy D. Boswell serves as its President & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.07873 of WSC’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 2024-09-30, WSC reported revenue of $601432000.0 and operating income of $147131000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $246451000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.37.
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. With WSC analysts setting a high price target of 57.0 and a low target of 35.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 43.66667. Based on these targets, WSC could surge 58.29% to reach the target high and fall by -2.8% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 21.26% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.63457 being high and $1.57983 being low. For WSC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.59016.
