A 18.55% Or Greater Growth Is Projected For Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ: WBA)

During the last session, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA)’s traded shares were 10.47 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.74. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $11.05, reflecting an intraday gain of 0.55% or $0.06. The 52-week high for the WBA share is $18.83, that puts it down -70.41 from that peak though still a striking 26.88% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $8.08. The company’s market capitalization is $9.56B, and the average trade volume was 18.64 million shares over the past three months.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.85. WBA has a Sell rating from 1 analyst(s) out of 11 analysts who have looked at this stock. 6 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 4 recommend a Buy rating for it.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) trade information

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) registered a 0.55% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 0.55% in intraday trading to $11.05, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 0.73%, and it has moved by 3.17% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -37.96%.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $9, which implies a decrease of -22.78% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $9 and $9 respectively. As a result, WBA is trading at a premium of 18.55% off the target high and 18.55% off the low.

While earnings are projected to return -42.21% in 2025, the next five years will return -15.72% per annum.

WBA Dividends

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc is 0.75, with the dividend yield indicating at 6.79 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.

The next largest institutional holding, with 70.01 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 8.1114% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $846.76 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . Data provided on Dec 31, 2024 indicates that VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 21.68 shares. This amounts to just over 2.51 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $239.53 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 19.42, or about 2.25% of the stock, which is worth about $214.61 million.