Let’s look at the key reasons that are pushing Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) to new highs

On Monday, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ: WBA) opened higher 1.94% from the last session, before settling in for the closing price of $9.26. Price fluctuations for WBA have ranged from $8.22 to $27.05 over the past 52 weeks.

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Healthcare Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 1.77% over the last five years. Company’s average yearly earnings per share was noted -42.64% at the time writing. With a float of $712.78 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $864.00 million.

The firm has a total of 312000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 17.96%, operating margin of -9.53%, and the pretax margin is -9.62%.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock

A key investor’s attitude towards the stock of the Pharmaceutical Retailers industry is another important factor to consider. The insider ownership of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc is 17.56%, while institutional ownership is 61.76%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Sep 11 ’24, was worth 129,330,578. In this transaction 10% Owner of this company sold 11,619,998 shares at a rate of $11.13, taking the stock ownership to the 23,239,996 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Aug 01 ’24, when Company’s 10% Owner sold 4,438,171 for $240.56, making the entire transaction worth $1,067,646,416. This insider now owns 19,980,000 shares in total.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) Recent Fiscal highlights

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -42.64% per share during the next fiscal year.

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

Check out the current performance indicators for Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA). In the past quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.37. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.06.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -10.01, a number that is poised to hit 0.40 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.54 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc, WBA], we can find that recorded value of 23.47 million was better than the volume posted last year of 17.32 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 10.04%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.48.

During the past 100 days, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc’s (WBA) raw stochastic average was set at 15.19%, which indicates a significant decrease from 27.39% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 80.70% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 62.26% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $9.32, while its 200-day Moving Average is $15.35. Now, the first resistance to watch is $9.56. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $9.69. The third major resistance level sits at $9.83. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $9.30, it is likely to go to the next support level at $9.16. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $9.04.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ: WBA) Key Stats

There are currently 863,275K shares outstanding in the company with a market cap of 8.16 billion. Presently, the company’s annual sales total 147,658 M according to its annual income of -8,636 M. Last quarter, the company’s sales amounted to 37,548 M and its income totaled -3,005 M.