Walgreens Boots Alliance - WBA Stock Forecast, Price & News

13 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Walgreens Boots Alliance in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 8 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" WBA shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in WBA, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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13 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for Walgreens Boots Alliance's shares. Their WBA share price forecasts range from $32.00 to $54.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $43.46 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 4.8% from the stock's current price.
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Walgreens Boots Alliance's stock was trading at $52.16 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, WBA shares have decreased by 20.5% and is now trading at $41.48.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 5th 2023.
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Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:WBA) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 13th. The pharmacy operator reported $0.80 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.78 by $0.02. The pharmacy operator had revenue of $32.45 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $32.17 billion. Walgreens Boots Alliance had a net margin of 3.27% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 14.39%. The company's revenue was down 5.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $1.17 earnings per share.
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Walgreens Boots Alliance announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 27th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, November 15th will be given a dividend of $0.48 per share on Monday, December 12th. This represents a $1.92 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.63%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, November 14th.
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Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA) pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.65%. WBA has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 46 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 38.40%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, WBA will have a dividend payout ratio of 40.25% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Walgreens Boots Alliance updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, October, 27th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $4.45-$4.65 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $4.53. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

4,267 employees have rated Walgreens Boots Alliance Chief Executive Officer Stefano Pessina on Glassdoor.com. Stefano Pessina has an approval rating of 32% among the company's employees. This puts Stefano Pessina in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Walgreens Boots Alliance trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "WBA."

Walgreens Boots Alliance's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (7.24%), BlackRock Inc. (6.80%), State Street Corp (6.17%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.88%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.69%) and Federated Hermes Inc. (0.68%). Insiders that own company stock include Kevin M Ban, Marco Patrick Anthony Pagni, Nancy M Schlichting and Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
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One share of WBA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $41.48.

Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA) has a market capitalization of $35.87 billion and generates $132.70 billion in revenue each year. The pharmacy operator earns $4.34 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.00 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 325,000 workers across the globe.

Walgreens Boots Alliance's mailing address is 108 Wilmot Road, Deerfield IL, 60015. The official website for the company is www.walgreensbootsalliance.com. The pharmacy operator can be reached via phone at (847) 315-3700, via email at investor.relations@wba.com, or via fax at 847-914-2804.