With 1.45 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.53 million shares. The 52-week range on WWW shows that it touched its highest point at $24.64 and its lowest point at $9.58 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $20.78. With its current market cap of 1.52 billion, WWW has annualized dividend of $0.40 while the current yield stands at 2.13%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.73.
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 WWW was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 11.91%, but this was up by 22.89% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 38.06% while six-month performance fell -18.23%. The stock gained 43.22% in the past year, while it has lost -15.36% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WWW yields 0.89 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.38. For the next quarter, that number is 0.23. This implies an EPS growth rate of 22.18% for this year and 24.37% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 27.53% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -16.72%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 81.04 million WWW shares are outstanding with a float of 79.46 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 WWW since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 $0.90177 being high and $0.87204 being low. For WWW, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.89186. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.38 and the low estimate is $0.22. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.26.
