Following The Money: Institution’s Growing Stake In Advanced Drainage Systems Inc (NYSE: WMS)

Advanced Drainage Systems Inc (WMS) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $118.8, with 0.46 million shares of worth about $54.06 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 3.46% during that period and on July 03, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.02%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 71.86M shares, out of which, 71.21M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 2.57% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 7.28%. Year-to-date (YTD), WMS shares are showing a performance of -24.19% which increased to 2.77% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $93.92 but also hit the highest price of $179.57 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Advanced Drainage Systems Inc shares is 752.17K. The stock is currently trading 2.32% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 3.49% for SMA50 and it goes to -4.46% lower than SMA200.

Advanced Drainage Systems Inc (NYSE: WMS) currently have 71.86M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 92.05% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $9.22B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.27. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 20.63, while it has posted earnings per share of $5.76 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.18 and has Quick Ratio of 2.10 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.92. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for WMS, volatility over the week remained 3.47% while standing at 2.99% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that Advanced Drainage Systems Inc (WMS) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 1.77 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 1.67 and it is 6.37 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 1.71 which is 1.87 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 2.06 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -4.55% while it is estimated to increase by 11.93% in next year.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Deutsche Bank on April 01, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $134 to it. Coverage by UBS stated Advanced Drainage Systems Inc (WMS) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on January 08, 2025, suggesting a price target of $155 for the stock. On November 13, 2024, Stephens Downgrade their recommendations, while on May 08, 2024, Northcoast Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $190. Stock get an Overweight rating from Stephens on August 25, 2023.

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