Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) Is Worth A Shot If You’re A Risk-Capital Investor

In the last trading session, 15.55 million Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE:WFC) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.16. With the company’s per share price at $64.02 changed hands at -$0.34 or -0.53% during last session, the market valuation stood at $217.91B. WFC’s last price was a discount, traded about -1.19% off its 52-week high of $64.78. The share price had its 52-week low at $38.58, which suggests the last value was 39.74% up since then. When we look at Wells Fargo & Co.’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 19.71 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 17.09 million.

Analysts gave the Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.00. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 18 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 6 recommended WFC as a Hold, 12 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Wells Fargo & Co.’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 1.32.

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Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE:WFC) trade information

Instantly WFC was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 2.99%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 30.07%, with the 5-day performance at 2.99% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE:WFC) is 13.73% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 31.01 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.48 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 62, meaning bulls need a downside of -3.26% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, WFC’s forecast low is 50 with 75 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -17.15% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 21.9% for it to hit the projected low.

Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Wells Fargo & Co. share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 4.78% over the past 6 months, a -3.13% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of -2.70%.

Consensus estimates given by 15 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 20.48B. 11 analysts are of the opinion that Wells Fargo & Co.’s revenue for the current quarter will be 20.38B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 20.48B and 20.2B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -0.00%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 0.90%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 2.48%. The 2024 estimates are for Wells Fargo & Co. earnings to increase by 9.06%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 8.39% per year.

WFC Dividends

Wells Fargo & Co. is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in November. The 2.26% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 1.45. It is important to note, however, that the 2.26% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 3.09 per year.

Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE:WFC)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.08% of Wells Fargo & Co. shares while 77.85% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 77.91%. There are 77.85% institutions holding the Wells Fargo & Co. stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 8.7281% of the shares, roughly 310.73 million WFC shares worth $18.45 billion.

BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 7.1338% or 253.97 million shares worth $15.08 billion as of 2024-06-30.