Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) Moves -2.20% Lower: These Numbers are Too Good to be True

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ: WBA) open the trading on Wednesday, with a bit cautious approach as it glided -2.20% to $17.34, before settling in for the price of $17.73 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, WBA posted a 52-week range of $17.49-$35.36.

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In the past 5-years timespan, the Healthcare sector firm’s annual sales growth was 1.35%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -18.91%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $863.67 million, simultaneously with a float of $711.60 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $14.96 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $19.75, while the 200-day Moving Average is $22.81.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) Ownership Facts and Figures

Sometimes it helps to make our mind if we keep our tabs on how bigger investors are working with the stock of the Pharmaceutical Retailers industry. Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 17.52%, in contrast to 59.06% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Apr 11 ’24, this organization’s Director bought 3,000 shares at the rate of 18.05, making the entire transaction reach 54,150 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 3,000. Preceding that transaction, on Apr 02 ’24, Company’s EVP and Global CFO bought 6,000 for 19.38, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 116,280. This particular insider is now the holder of 166,969 in total.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) Earnings and Revenue Records

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -18.91% and is forecasted to reach 3.17 in the upcoming year.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ: WBA) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.32. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 0.53. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.10.

In the same vein, WBA’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded -7.00, a figure that is expected to reach 0.72 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 3.17 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA)

[Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc, WBA] recent stats showed that its last 5-days Average volume was poorer than the volume it posted in the year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 28.94% While, its Average True Range was 0.49.

Raw Stochastic average of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 0.92%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 7.44% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 23.19% that was lower than 40.34% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.