WEX Inc (NYSE:WEX)’s traded shares stood at 0.75 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.29. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $175.62, to imply an increase of 0.87% or $1.52 in intraday trading. The WEX share’s 52-week high remains $217.47, putting it -23.83% down since that peak but still an impressive 37.11% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $110.45. The company has a valuation of $6.01B, with an average of 0.56 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 518.81K shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Hold for WEX Inc (WEX), translating to a mean rating of 2.80. Of 6 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give WEX a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 4 advise Hold as 2 recommend it as a Buy.
WEX Inc (NYSE:WEX) trade information
After registering a 0.87% upside in the last session, WEX Inc (WEX) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 14.68%, and 21.40% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -5.37%. Short interest in WEX Inc (NYSE:WEX) saw shorts transact 1.79 million shares and set a 3.61 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $186 and $186 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, WEX has been trading -5.91% off suggested target high and -5.91% from its likely low.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 27.08% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 2.04% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 8.27% annually.
WEX Dividends
WEX Inc has its next earnings report out on 2025-Apr-30. 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.
WEX Inc (NYSE:WEX)’s Major holders
WEX Inc insiders hold 1.03% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 117.74% of the shares at 118.96% float percentage. In total, 117.74% institutions holds shares in the company, led by JANUS HENDERSON GROUP PLC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 4.14 million shares (or 9.924% of shares), all amounting to roughly $733.06 million.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 4.0 million shares, or about 9.5965% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $708.87 million.
We also have JANUS INVESTMENT FUND-Janus Henderson Enterprise Fund and Eaton Vance Growth Trust-Eaton Vance Atlanta Capital SMID-Cap Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the WEX Inc (WEX) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , JANUS INVESTMENT FUND-Janus Henderson Enterprise Fund holds roughly 2.5 shares. This is just over 7.30% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $438.89 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 1.73, or 5.04% of the shares, all valued at about 303.16 million.
