Whirlpool Corp (NYSE: WHR) is 8.21% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $73.72 and a high of $135.49 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 WHR stock was last observed hovering at around $105.28 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 1339894.72%.
Currently trading at $1340000.0, the stock is 19.84% and 31.06% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.73 million and changing 5.04% at the moment leaves the stock 10.39% off its SMA200. WHR registered -3.40% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -3.98%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $84.382 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $100.1767.
The stock witnessed a 40.79% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 21.31%, and is 17.54% 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 4.47% over the week and 3.28% over the month.
Whirlpool Corp (WHR) has around 44000 employees, a market worth around $6.15B and $15.74B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 819.19 and Fwd P/E is 10.05. Profit margin for the company is 0.04%. Distance from 52-week low is 50.01% and -18.38% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (0.07%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -24.84% this year
690.0 institutions hold shares in Whirlpool Corp (WHR), with institutional investors hold 90.49% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 55.00M, and float is at 54.11M with Short Float at 16.73%. Institutions hold 89.78% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 6.13 million shares valued at $626.33 million. The investor’s holdings represent 11.163 of the WHR Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 5.48 million shares valued at $559.73 million to account for 9.976 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are PRIMECAP MANAGEMENT CO/CA/ which holds 4.86 million shares representing 8.8493 and valued at over $496.51 million, while CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC holds 3.2071 of the shares totaling 1.76 million with a market value of $179.94 million.
Whirlpool Corp (WHR) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Bitzer Marc R, the company’s CHAIRMAN AND CEO. SEC filings show that Bitzer Marc R sold 10,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Nov 19 ’24 at a price of $110.09 per share for a total of $1.1 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.2 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Oct 28 ’24, Peters James W (EVP, CFO AND ADMIN OFFICER) disposed off 6,000 shares at an average price of $104.48 for $0.63 million. The insider now directly holds 41,570 shares of Whirlpool Corp (WHR).
