Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) EPS is poised to hit 0.40 next quarter: How Investors Can Make It Count the Most?

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ: WBA) started the day on Thursday, with a price decrease of -3.70% at $10.66, before settling in for the price of $11.07 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, WBA posted a 52-week range of $8.22-$27.05.

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It was noted that the giant of the Healthcare sector posted annual sales growth of 1.77% over the last 5 years. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -41.86%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $864.00 million, simultaneously with a float of $712.78 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $9.22 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $9.44, while the 200-day Moving Average is $15.88.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) Ownership Facts and Figures

Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Pharmaceutical Retailers Industry. Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 17.56%, in contrast to 61.13% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Sep 11 ’24, this organization’s 10% Owner sold 11,619,998 shares at the rate of 11.13, making the entire transaction reach 129,330,578 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 23,239,996. Preceding that transaction, on Aug 01 ’24, Company’s 10% Owner sold 4,438,171 for 240.56, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 1,067,646,416. This particular insider is now the holder of 19,980,000 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 -41.86% and is forecasted to reach 1.59 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 0.37. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 0.50. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.06.

In the same vein, WBA’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded -10.01, a figure that is expected to reach 0.40 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 1.59 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA)

If we take a close look at the recent performances of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ: WBA), its last 5-days Average volume was 44.8 million that shows progress from its year to date volume of 17.13 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 89.85% While, its Average True Range was 0.56.

Raw Stochastic average of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 30.05%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 82.63% 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 70.60% that was higher than 62.26% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.