In last trading session, Whitestone REIT (NYSE:WSR) saw 0.76 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.90. Company’s recent per share price level of $12.53 trading at -$0.01 or -0.08% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $1.27B. That closing price of WSR’s stock is at a discount of -22.59% from its 52-week high price of $15.36 and is indicating a premium of 6.07% from its 52-week low price of $11.77. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.34 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 253.94K if we extend that period to 3-months.
Whitestone REIT (NYSE:WSR) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.08%, in the last five days WSR remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Tuesday, 06/24/25 when the stock touched $12.53 price level, adding 0.95% to its value on the day. Whitestone REIT’s shares saw a change of -4.35% in year-to-date performance and have moved 2.04% in past 5-day. Whitestone REIT (NYSE:WSR) showed a performance of 3.13% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 0.44 million shares which calculate 2.13 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 16 to the stock, which implies a rise of 21.69% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 15 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 16. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -19.71% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -19.71% for stock’s current value.
Whitestone REIT (WSR) estimates and forecasts
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 4.73% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -52.31% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of -12.64%.
WSR Dividends
Whitestone REIT is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-30 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 4.13%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.52 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 5.17%.
Whitestone REIT (NYSE:WSR)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 12.50% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 65.55 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 74.91%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 65.55% institutions for Whitestone REIT that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at WSR for having 7.71 million shares of worth $102.6 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 15.4297 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 5.38 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 10.7751 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $71.65 million.
On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD SPECIALIZED FUNDS-Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Apr 30, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 2.74 shares of worth $34.39 million or 5.39% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 1.64 shares on Jan 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $20.55 million in the company or a holder of 3.22% of company’s stock.
