An In-Depth Look At Wayfair Inc (W)

Wayfair Inc (NYSE:W) has a beta value of 3.73 and has seen 4.78 million shares traded in the last trading session. The company, currently valued at $4.05B, closed the last trade at $31.94 per share which meant it lost -$0.09 on the day or -0.28% during that session. The W stock price is -138.51% off its 52-week high price of $76.18 and 7.08% above the 52-week low of $29.68. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 5.55 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 4.18 million shares.

The consensus among analysts is that Wayfair Inc (W) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.03. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 1 rate it as Overweight. 10 out of 30 have rated it as a Hold, with 19 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.

Wayfair Inc (NYSE:W) trade information

Sporting -0.28% in the red in last session, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the W stock price touched $31.94 or saw a rise of 18.08%. Year-to-date, Wayfair Inc shares have moved -27.93%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -17.30%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Wayfair Inc (NYSE:W) have changed -12.78%. Short interest in the company has seen 17.34 million shares shorted with days to cover at 3.66.

Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $54, which means that the shares’ value could jump 40.85% from current levels. The projected low price target is $46.0 while the price target rests at a high of $60.0. In that case, then, we find that the current price level is -87.85% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -44.02% from current levels.

Wayfair Inc (W) estimates and forecasts

The company’s shares have lost -43.73% over the past 6 months.

If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 17.83% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 309.83% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 163.91%.

W Dividends

Wayfair Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Feb-19 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.

Wayfair Inc (NYSE:W)’s Major holders

Insiders own 5.19% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 110.47% with a share float percentage of 116.52%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Wayfair Inc having a total of 447.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are FMR LLC with over 14.41 million shares worth more than $759.61 million. As of 2024-06-30, FMR LLC held 11.8078% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS, with the holding of over 12.15 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $640.6 million and represent 9.958% of shares outstanding.