W.R. Berkley Corp (NYSE: WRB) started the day on Thursday, with a price decrease of -0.19% at $74.58, before settling in for the price of $74.72 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, WRB posted a 52-week range of $55.59-$78.48.
The Financial sector firm’s twelve-monthly sales growth has been 22.70% for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 22.70%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 4.08%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $379.88 million, simultaneously with a float of $297.46 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $28.34 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $74.26, while the 200-day Moving Average is $69.73.
W.R. Berkley Corp (WRB) Ownership Facts and Figures
Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Insurance – Property & Casualty Industry. W.R. Berkley Corp’s current insider ownership accounts for 21.73%, in contrast to 67.90% institutional ownership.
W.R. Berkley Corp (WRB) Earnings and Revenue Records
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.17 per share during the current fiscal year.
W.R. Berkley Corp’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 4.08% and is forecasted to reach 4.66 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 6.50% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 22.70% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
W.R. Berkley Corp (NYSE: WRB) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for W.R. Berkley Corp (WRB). Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $15.67, and its Beta score is 0.38. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 1.93. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 8.63.
In the same vein, WRB’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 4.76, a figure that is expected to reach 1.14 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 4.66 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of W.R. Berkley Corp (WRB)
If we take a close look at the recent performances of W.R. Berkley Corp (NYSE: WRB), its last 5-days Average volume was 3.26 million that shows progress from its year to date volume of 2.06 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 78.49% While, its Average True Range was 54.95.
Raw Stochastic average of W.R. Berkley Corp (WRB) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 66.95%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 79.26% 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 1.57 that was higher than 1.22 volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
