Wolfspeed Inc (NYSE: WOLF) Is Becoming An Interest-Losing Stock With A -8.32% Decline

In the last trading session, 15.72 million Wolfspeed Inc (NYSE:WOLF) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.43. With the company’s per share price at $5.62 changed hands at -$0.51 or -8.32% during last session, the market valuation stood at $874.31M. WOLF’s last price was a discount, traded about -460.68% off its 52-week high of $31.51. The share price had its 52-week low at $4.66, which suggests the last value was 17.08% up since then. When we look at Wolfspeed Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 17.48 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 15.28 million.

Analysts gave the Wolfspeed Inc (WOLF) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.72. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 11 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 1 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 4 recommended WOLF as a Hold, 6 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.

Wolfspeed Inc (NYSE:WOLF) trade information

Instantly WOLF was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -7.11%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -15.62%, with the 5-day performance at -7.11% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Wolfspeed Inc (NYSE:WOLF) is -15.62% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 41.84 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.74 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 13.5, meaning bulls need an upside of 58.37% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, WOLF’s forecast low is 9 with 16 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -184.7% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -60.14% for it to hit the projected low.

Wolfspeed Inc (WOLF) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Wolfspeed Inc 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 -65.79% over the past 6 months, a -30.89% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 3.10%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -18.18%. The 2025 estimates are for Wolfspeed Inc earnings to decrease by -30.92%.

WOLF Dividends

Wolfspeed Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in March.

Wolfspeed Inc (NYSE:WOLF)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.88% of Wolfspeed Inc shares while 93.80% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 94.63%. There are 93.80% institutions holding the Wolfspeed Inc stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 10.7473% of the shares, roughly 13.52 million WOLF shares worth $307.79 million.

BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 10.5123% or 13.23 million shares worth $301.06 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Nov 30, 2024 were iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF and Price (T.Rowe) Mid-Cap Value Fund . With 8.14 shares estimated at $45.76 million under it, the former controlled 6.37% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Price (T.Rowe) Mid-Cap Value Fund held about 3.57% of the shares, roughly 4.56 shares worth around $25.65 million.