Currently, there are 863.49M common shares owned by the public and among those 711.51M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -0.18% and 14.43% over the past three months. WBA shares are trading 20.69% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -46.51% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $8.08 and touched a high of $22.05 over the same period. WBA has an average intraday trading volume of 26.68 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 2.86%, 4.28%, and 5.64% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ: WBA) shares accounts for 63.12% of the company’s 863.49M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $9.74B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.65. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$10.24. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.09% over the week and 4.75% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -43.76%, and -7.50% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the WBA, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Deutsche Bank stated their Sell rating for the stock in a research note on February 28, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $11-$9. Leerink Partners coverage for the Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) stock in a research note released on February 26, 2024 offered a Market Perform rating with a price target of $23. HSBC Securities was of a view on February 20, 2024 that the stock is Reduce, while Barclays gave the stock Underweight rating on January 03, 2024, issuing a price target of $21. HSBC Securities on their part issued Hold rating on December 22, 2023.
