WillScot Holdings Corp (NASDAQ: WSC) is 1.70% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $32.57 and a high of $52.16 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The WSC stock was last observed hovering at around $34.13 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.11%.
Currently trading at $34.02, the stock is -1.22% and -6.23% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.92 million and changing -0.32% at the moment leaves the stock -10.95% off its SMA200. WSC registered -21.12% loss for a year compared to 6-month gain of -6.51%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $36.3805 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $38.261875.
The stock witnessed a -13.13% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -6.77%, and is 1.70% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.44% over the week and 3.38% over the month.
WillScot Holdings Corp (WSC) has around 5000 employees, a market worth around $6.29B and $2.41B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 296.34 and Fwd P/E is 18.68. Profit margin for the company is 1.05%. Distance from 52-week low is 4.45% and -34.78% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (0.52%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -6.53% this year
526.0 institutions hold shares in WillScot Holdings Corp (WSC), with institutional investors hold 110.85% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 187.05M, and float is at 179.65M with Short Float at 7.16%. Institutions hold 107.90% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 16.87 million shares valued at $635.17 million. The investor’s holdings represent 8.8965 of the WSC Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 11.33 million shares valued at $426.54 million to account for 5.9743 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ which holds 9.12 million shares representing 4.806 and valued at over $343.13 million, while FRANKLIN RESOURCES INC holds 4.3179 of the shares totaling 8.19 million with a market value of $308.28 million.
WillScot Holdings Corp (WSC) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Parkes Graeme, the company’s Chief Information Officer. SEC filings show that Parkes Graeme sold 2,900 shares of the company’s common stock on Dec 11 ’24 at a price of $37.01 per share for a total of $0.11 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 72818.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Nov 19 ’24, Holthaus Gerard E (Director) acquired 5,000 shares at an average price of $34.99 for $0.17 million. The insider now directly holds 411,221 shares of WillScot Holdings Corp (WSC).
