NASDAQ:WBA - Walgreens Boots Alliance Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Walgreens Boots Alliance announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, June 29th. Investors of record on Monday, August 20th will be paid a dividend of $0.44 per share on Wednesday, September 12th. This represents a $1.76 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.41%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, August 17th. This is a positive change from Walgreens Boots Alliance's previous quarterly dividend of $0.40. View Walgreens Boots Alliance's Dividend History.

Walgreens Boots Alliance announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase plan on Thursday, October 26th 2017, which allows the company to buyback $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally a sign that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, June, 28th. The pharmacy operator reported $1.53 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.47 by $0.06. The pharmacy operator earned $34.33 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $34.15 billion. Walgreens Boots Alliance had a return on equity of 21.22% and a net margin of 3.36%. The firm's revenue was up 14.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $1.33 EPS. View Walgreens Boots Alliance's Earnings History.

Walgreens Boots Alliance is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October, 11th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Walgreens Boots Alliance updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Thursday, June, 28th. The company provided EPS guidance of $5.90-6.05 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $5.95.

18 analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Walgreens Boots Alliance's shares. Their predictions range from $60.00 to $104.00. On average, they anticipate Walgreens Boots Alliance's share price to reach $76.8824 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 5.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Walgreens Boots Alliance.

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Walgreens Boots Alliance in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 12 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Walgreens Boots Alliance saw a decline in short interest in the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 27,286,782 shares, a decline of 13.8% from the August 15th total of 31,651,003 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 5,028,273 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.4 days. Approximately 3.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Walgreens Boots Alliance's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Walgreens Boots Alliance include CVS Health (CVS), Express Scripts (ESRX), Diplomat Pharmacy (DPLO), Rite Aid (RAD), Petmed Express (PETS), Taxus Pharmaceuticals (TXSP), HealthWarehouse.com (HEWA) and Dougherty's Pharmacy (MYDP).

News headlines about WBA stock have trended somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than twenty million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Walgreens Boots Alliance earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also gave news articles about the pharmacy operator an impact score of 46.57 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View Recent Headlines for Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Walgreens Boots Alliance's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (5.36%), Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec (1.12%), Northern Trust Corp (1.12%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.10%), LSV Asset Management (0.88%) and Burgundy Asset Management Ltd. (0.72%). Company insiders that own Walgreens Boots Alliance stock include Janice M Babiak, John Anthony Lederer, Kathleen Wilson-Thompson, Ornella Barra, Stefano Pessina and William C Foote. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Walgreens Boots Alliance.

WBA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, FMR LLC, Nomura Holdings Inc., Scharf Investments LLC, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board, Coronation Fund Managers Ltd. and Russell Investments Group Ltd.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Walgreens Boots Alliance.

WBA stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, LSV Asset Management, Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec, Burgundy Asset Management Ltd., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., BlackRock Inc., River Road Asset Management LLC and Sterling Capital Management LLC. Company insiders that have bought Walgreens Boots Alliance stock in the last two years include Janice M Babiak, John Anthony Lederer, Ornella Barra and Stefano Pessina. View Insider Buying and Selling for Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Shares of WBA can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of WBA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $73.00.

Walgreens Boots Alliance has a market capitalization of $70.74 billion and generates $118.21 billion in revenue each year. The pharmacy operator earns $4.08 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.10 on an earnings per share basis. Walgreens Boots Alliance employs 345,000 workers across the globe.

Walgreens Boots Alliance's mailing address is 108 Wilmot Road, Deerfield IL, 60015. The pharmacy operator can be reached via phone at 847-315-2500 or via email at [email protected]