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 Thursday, October 25th. Shareholders of record on Monday, November 12th will be paid a dividend of $0.44 per share on Wednesday, December 12th. This represents a $1.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.24%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 8th. View Walgreens Boots Alliance's Dividend History.

Walgreens Boots Alliance declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback program on Thursday, October 26th 2017, which allows the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 11th. The pharmacy operator reported $1.48 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.45 by $0.03. The pharmacy operator had revenue of $33.44 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $33.64 billion. Walgreens Boots Alliance had a net margin of 3.82% and a return on equity of 21.75%. View Walgreens Boots Alliance's Earnings History.

Walgreens Boots Alliance is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, December 20th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Walgreens Boots Alliance will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, December 20th at 8:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Walgreens Boots Alliance updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Sunday, October, 14th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 6.40-6.70 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $6.42.

18 analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Walgreens Boots Alliance's stock. Their predictions range from $60.00 to $104.00. On average, they anticipate Walgreens Boots Alliance's share price to reach $78.1176 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.8%. 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 2 sell ratings, 10 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Media coverage about WBA stock has trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Walgreens Boots Alliance earned a media sentiment score of 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the pharmacy operator a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days.

Walgreens Boots Alliance saw a increase in short interest in the month of November. As of November 30th, there was short interest totalling 24,834,046 shares, an increase of 6.9% from the November 15th total of 23,239,464 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 5,983,711 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.2 days. Approximately 3.1% of the shares of the company 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), 111 (YI), Petmed Express (PETS), Taxus Pharmaceuticals (TXSP), HealthWarehouse.com (HEWA) and Dougherty's Pharmacy (MYDP).

Walgreens Boots Alliance's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (7.44%), Vanguard Group Inc (7.47%), BlackRock Inc. (5.56%), Franklin Resources Inc. (1.98%), Capital World Investors (1.91%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.23%). Company insiders that own Walgreens Boots Alliance stock include Janice M Babiak, John Anthony Lederer, Kathleen Wilson-Thompson, Kimberly R Scardino, Nancy M Schlichting, 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 Man Group plc, American Century Companies Inc., Capital Research Global Investors, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, CI Global Investments Inc., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and TIAA CREF Investment Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Walgreens Boots Alliance company stock in the last year include Kathleen Wilson-Thompson, Kimberly R Scardino, Nancy M Schlichting and William C Foote. View Insider Buying and Selling for Walgreens Boots Alliance.

WBA stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Franklin Resources Inc., Capital World Investors, LSV Asset Management, Capital International Investors, Morgan Stanley, Mackenzie Financial Corp and FMR 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 $78.74.

Walgreens Boots Alliance has a market capitalization of $74.47 billion and generates $131.54 billion in revenue each year. The pharmacy operator earns $5.02 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.02 on an earnings per share basis. Walgreens Boots Alliance employs 354,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Walgreens Boots Alliance is http://www.walgreensbootsalliance.com.

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]