Are Analysts Expecting A Better 2020 For Wheaton Precious Metals Corp (WPM)?

Wheaton Precious Metals Corp (WPM) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $81.53, with 4.14 million shares of worth about $337.62 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 22.62% during that period and on April 23, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -2.31%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 453.68M shares, out of which, 453.13M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -2.21% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 8.84%. Year-to-date (YTD), WPM shares are showing a performance of 44.97% which increased to 54.85% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $50.95 but also hit the highest price of $87.42 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Wheaton Precious Metals Corp shares is 1.92 million. The stock is currently trading 3.81% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 10.15% for SMA50 and it goes to 27.16% higher than SMA200.

Wheaton Precious Metals Corp (NYSE: WPM) currently have 453.68M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 65.00% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $36.99B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.45. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 69.96, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.17 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.69 and has Quick Ratio of 28.07 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.00. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for WPM, volatility over the week remained 3.24% while standing at 4.17% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 51.66% while it is estimated to increase by 3.07% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 18.96% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 43.30% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

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 BMO Capital Markets on April 16, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $129 to it. Coverage by UBS stated Wheaton Precious Metals Corp (WPM) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on November 18, 2024, suggesting a price target of $78 for the stock. Stock get a Buy rating from Jefferies on February 29, 2024.

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