Adversity is less terrifying than hope: Winnebago Industries, Inc (WGO)

With 1.41 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.75 million shares. The 52-week range on WGO shows that it touched its highest point at $74.10 and its lowest point at $36.86 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $61.27. With its current market cap of 990.76 million, WGO has annualized dividend of $1.30 while the current yield stands at 3.73%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.48.

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 WGO was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -17.24%, but this was down by -24.90% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -40.40% while six-month performance fell -41.52%. The stock lost -51.52% in the past year, while it has lost -26.98% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WGO yields -0.67 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.68. For the next quarter, that number is 0.19. This implies an EPS growth rate of -4.30% for this year and 43.76% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 21.07% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -34.02%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 28.40 million WGO shares are outstanding with a float of 27.29 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 WGO since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 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 $4.08489 being high and $3.83262 being low. For WGO, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.97816. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.85 and the low estimate is $1.36. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.59.

Summary of Insider Activity:

Insiders traded WGO 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.