The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (NASDAQ:WTER)’s traded shares stood at 1.11 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.88. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $0.16, to imply a decrease of -1.25% or $0.0 in intraday trading. The WTER share’s 52-week high remains $1.02, putting it -537.5% down since that peak but still an impressive 12.5% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $0.14. The company has a valuation of $24.74M, with an average of 1.12 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 1.24 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of a Buy for The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (WTER), translating to a mean rating of 2.00. Of 1 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give WTER a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 0 advise Hold as 1 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at -$0.04.
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The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (NASDAQ:WTER) trade information
After registering a -1.25% downside in the last session, The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (WTER) has traded red over the past five days. The stock hit a weekly high of 0.1900 this Thursday, 03/16/23, dropping -1.25% in its intraday price action. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -14.69%, and -29.72% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -9.56%. Short interest in The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (NASDAQ:WTER) saw shorts transact 1.58 million shares and set a 1.12 days time to cover.
Analysts on Wall Street suggest a consensus price target of $1.50, implying an increase of 89.33% to the stock’s current value. The extremes give us $1.50 and $1.50 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, WTER has been trading -837.5% off suggested target high and -837.5% from its likely low.
The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (WTER) estimates and forecasts
Looking at statistics comparing The Alkaline Water Company Inc. share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has outperformed competitors. The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (WTER) shares are -68.16% down over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate higher than industry average at 52.50% against 16.10%. Revenue is forecast to grow 60.00% this quarter before jumping 72.70% for the next one. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 23.80% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 1 analysts is $18.66 million. Meanwhile, for the quarter ending Mar 2023, a total of 1 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to $19.9 million.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in $15.11 million and $16.12 million respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 23.50% before jumping 23.50% in the following quarter.
WTER Dividends
The Alkaline Water Company Inc. has its next earnings report out on February 28. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. The Alkaline Water Company Inc. has a forward dividend ratio of 0, with the share yield ticking at 0.00% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 0.00%.
The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (NASDAQ:WTER)’s Major holders
The Alkaline Water Company Inc. insiders hold 6.41% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 7.11% of the shares at 7.60% float percentage. In total, 7.11% institutions holds shares in the company, led by Vanguard Group, Inc. (The). As of Sep 29, 2022, the company held over 3.71 million shares (or 9.46% of shares), all amounting to roughly $1.25 million.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is Geode Capital Management, LLC with 1.23 million shares, or about 3.13% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on Sep 29, 2022, these shares were worth $0.41 million.
We also have Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (WTER) shares. Going by data provided on Sep 29, 2022, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 2.27 million shares. This is just over 5.79% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $0.77 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 1.23 million, or 3.14% of the shares, all valued at about 0.42 million.
