With 0.83 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.1 million shares. During the session, the Oil & Gas E&P company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $15.555 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $15.4. The 52-week range on WDS shows that it touched its highest point at $20.17 and its lowest point at $11.26 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $17.11. With its current market cap of 29.38 billion, WDS has annualized dividend of $1.22 while the current yield stands at 7.87%. WDS paid its most recent dividend on 1741305600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741305600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.69.
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 WDS was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -6.06%, but this was up by 11.19% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 6.38% while six-month performance rose 7.86%. The stock lost -0.64% in the past year, while it has lost -13.79% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WDS yields 1.87 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.70. For the next quarter, that number is 0.55. This implies an EPS growth rate of -33.73% for this year and -30.23% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -14.79% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 38.75%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 1.90 billion WDS shares are outstanding with a float of 1.90 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-06-13, short shares totaled 1.7 million, which was 9.000000400000001 higher than short shares on 1747267200. In addition to Ms. Marguerite Eileen O’Neill B.Sc., M.Sc. as the firm’s CEO, MD & Executive Director, Mr. Graham Clifford Tiver FCPA serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.01277 of WDS’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
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 $1.54777 being high and $1.51108 being low. For WDS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.53346. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.
