Westrock Coffee Company (NASDAQ: WEST) Gain Of 23.37% Compared To 52-Week Low; YTD Rise 7.32% – What Should You Do Now?

Westrock Coffee Company (NASDAQ:WEST)’s traded shares stood at 0.59 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.55. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $6.89, to imply an increase of 5.67% or $0.37 in intraday trading. The WEST share’s 52-week high remains $10.99, putting it -59.51% down since that peak but still an impressive 23.37% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $5.28. The company has a valuation of $649.23M, with an average of 0.5 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 280.35K shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Westrock Coffee Company (WEST), translating to a mean rating of 1.00. Of 1 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give WEST 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 -0.2.

Westrock Coffee Company (NASDAQ:WEST) trade information

After registering a 5.67% upside in the last session, Westrock Coffee Company (WEST) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 0.15%, and 10.24% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 7.32%. Short interest in Westrock Coffee Company (NASDAQ:WEST) saw shorts transact 5.61 million shares and set a 29.7 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $9 and $13 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, WEST has been trading -88.68% off suggested target high and -30.62% from its likely low.

Westrock Coffee Company (WEST) estimates and forecasts

The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 19.47% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 5 analysts is 213.85M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 5 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 241.15M.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 192.5M and 208.39M respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 11.09% before jumping 15.72% in the following quarter.

WEST Dividends

Westrock Coffee Company has its next earnings report out on 2025-Mar-10. 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.

Westrock Coffee Company (NASDAQ:WEST)’s Major holders

Westrock Coffee Company insiders hold 53.13% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 41.59% of the shares at 88.72% float percentage. In total, 41.59% institutions holds shares in the company, led by STEPHENS GROUP, LLC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 8.14 million shares (or 9.2212% of shares), all amounting to roughly $83.32 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is SOUTHEASTERN ASSET MANAGEMENT INC/TN/ with 5.29 million shares, or about 5.9856% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $54.08 million.

We also have Longleaf Partners Small-Cap Fund and Mid Cap Portfolio as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Westrock Coffee Company (WEST) shares. Going by data provided on Dec 31, 2024 , Longleaf Partners Small-Cap Fund holds roughly 4.77 shares. This is just over 5.06% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $32.85 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 1.99, or 2.11% of the shares, all valued at about 13.7 million.