Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $11.39, with 4.93 million shares of worth about $56.19 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 9.62% during that period and on June 18, 2025 the price remained unchanged. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 864.46M shares, out of which, 712.72M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 0.44% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 1.24%. Year-to-date (YTD), WBA shares are showing a performance of 22.08% which decreased to -26.75% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $8.08 but also hit the highest price of $16.25 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc shares is 11.35 million. The stock is currently trading 0.97% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 2.46% for SMA50 and it goes to 11.57% higher than SMA200.
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ: WBA) currently have 864.46M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 61.17% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $9.86B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.75. It has posted earnings per share of -$6.69 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 0.32 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 4.38. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for WBA, volatility over the week remained 0.15% while standing at 0.33% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.34 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.25 and it is 1.51 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.3 which is 0.42 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 0.63 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -41.73% while it is estimated to decrease by -13.49% 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 February 28, 2025 offering a Sell rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $11 and $9 to it. Coverage by Leerink Partners stated Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) stock as a Market perform in their note to investors on February 26, 2024, suggesting a price target of $23 for the stock. On February 20, 2024, HSBC Securities Downgrade their recommendations, while on January 03, 2024, Barclays Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $21. Stock get a Hold rating from HSBC Securities on December 22, 2023.
