NASDAQ:WDFC - WD-40 Stock Price, News & Analysis

WD-40 trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "WDFC."

WD-40 declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, June 18th. Investors of record on Friday, July 19th will be paid a dividend of $0.61 per share on Wednesday, July 31st. This represents a $2.44 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.32%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, July 18th. View WD-40's Dividend History.

WD-40 (NASDAQ:WDFC) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July, 9th. The specialty chemicals company reported $1.30 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.22 by $0.08. The specialty chemicals company earned $114 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $109.40 million. WD-40 had a net margin of 16.45% and a return on equity of 40.12%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 6.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.15 EPS. View WD-40's Earnings History.

WD-40 is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 17th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for WD-40.

WD-40 will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, October 17th at 5:00 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

WD-40 updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, July, 9th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $4.58-4.65 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $4.56. The company issued revenue guidance of $425-437 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $423.30 million.

1 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for WD-40's stock. Their predictions range from $209.00 to $209.00. On average, they expect WD-40's share price to reach $209.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 12.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for WD-40.

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for WD-40 in the last year. There are currently 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for WD-40.

News headlines about WDFC stock have trended negative this week, InfoTrie reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. WD-40 earned a daily sentiment score of -2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the specialty chemicals company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for WD-40.

WD-40 saw a drop in short interest in July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,950,500 shares, a drop of 5.5% from the June 30th total of 2,064,800 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 102,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 19.0 days. Approximately 14.3% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View WD-40's Current Options Chain.

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WD-40's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (14.50%), Vanguard Group Inc. (10.70%), Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC (3.17%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (2.80%), VGI Partners Ltd (2.68%) and Acadian Asset Management LLC (2.27%). Company insiders that own WD-40 stock include Daniel E Pittard, Geoffrey Holdsworth, Jay Rembolt, Michael L Freeman, Stanley Sewitch, Jr, Steven A Brass and William B Noble. View Institutional Ownership Trends for WD-40.

WDFC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Parnassus Investments CA, Renaissance Technologies LLC, BlackRock Inc., Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Natixis Advisors L.P., First Trust Advisors LP and Redwood Investments LLC. Company insiders that have sold WD-40 company stock in the last year include Michael L Freeman, Stanley Sewitch, Jr and Steven A Brass. View Insider Buying and Selling for WD-40.

WDFC stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including APG Asset Management N.V., Morgan Stanley, Invesco Ltd., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Allianz Asset Management GmbH, Man Group plc, VGI Partners Ltd and Westhampton Capital LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for WD-40.

Shares of WDFC 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 WDFC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $185.49.

WD-40 has a market capitalization of $2.55 billion and generates $408.52 million in revenue each year. The specialty chemicals company earns $65.21 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.13 on an earnings per share basis. WD-40 employs 480 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About WD-40.

The official website for WD-40 is http://www.wd40company.com/.

WD-40's mailing address is 9715 BUSINESSPARK AVENUE, SAN DIEGO CA, 92131. The specialty chemicals company can be reached via phone at 619-275-1400 or via email at invest[email protected]