Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) has a beta value of 0.75 and has seen 7.95 million shares traded in the last trading session. The WBA stock price is -43.17% off its 52-week high price of $16.25 and 28.81% above the 52-week low of $8.08. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 6.56 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 10.88 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) is Hold stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 3.00. 1 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 6 out of 11 have rated it as a Hold, with 4 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) trade information
Over the past 30 days, the shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) have changed 0.98%. Short interest in the company has seen 23.53 million shares shorted with days to cover at 2.09.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $9, which means that the shares’ value could drop -26.11% from current levels. The projected low price target is $9.0 while the price target rests at a high of $9.0. In that case, then, we find that the current price level is 20.7% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 20.7% from current levels.
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 17.01% over the past 6 months.
Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest -41.05% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to decrease by -20.45%.
WBA Dividends
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Apr-08 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.50 at a share yield of 4.41%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 6.5%.
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA)’s Major holders
Insiders own 17.44% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 61.58% with a share float percentage of 74.59%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc having a total of 1163.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 82.21 million shares worth more than $994.3 million. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 9.5247% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 70.01 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $846.76 million and represent 8.1114% of shares outstanding.
