NASDAQ:WRLD - World Acceptance Stock Price, Forecast & News

World Acceptance trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "WRLD."

World Acceptance Corp. (NASDAQ:WRLD) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 31st. The credit services provider reported $0.51 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.14 by $0.63. The credit services provider earned $141.60 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $145.72 million. World Acceptance had a net margin of 9.92% and a return on equity of 11.02%. The business's revenue was up 11.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $1.56 earnings per share. View World Acceptance's Earnings History.

World Acceptance is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 30th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for World Acceptance.

2 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for World Acceptance's shares. Their forecasts range from $65.00 to $87.00. On average, they anticipate World Acceptance's share price to reach $76.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 18.9%. View Analyst Price Targets for World Acceptance.

2 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for World Acceptance in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Sell." View Analyst Ratings for World Acceptance.

News coverage about WRLD stock has trended very positive on Friday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. World Acceptance earned a news impact score of 4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the credit services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for World Acceptance.

World Acceptance saw a increase in short interest in October. As of October 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,310,000 shares, an increase of 21.3% from the September 15th total of 1,080,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 150,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 8.7 days. Currently, 15.5% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View World Acceptance's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to World Acceptance include American Express (AXP), Capital One Financial (COF), Discover Financial Services (DFS), Credit Acceptance (CACC), SLM (SLM), FirstCash (FCFS), Nelnet (NNI), Pra Group (PRAA), Green Dot (GDOT), Encore Capital Group (ECPG), Regional Management (RM), EZCORP (EZPW), Nicholas Financial (NICK) and Asta Funding (ASFI).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other World Acceptance investors own include Prudential Financial (PRU), Concert Pharmaceuticals (CNCE), Eyepoint Pharmaceuticals (EYPT), Netflix (NFLX), PTC Therapeutics (PTCT), Tesla (TSLA), Bausch Health Companies (BHC), Square (SQ), CEL-SCI (CVM) and TransEnterix (TRXC).

World Acceptance's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (2.44%), Ingalls & Snyder LLC (0.85%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.30%), Rhumbline Advisers (0.22%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.22%) and Livingston Group Asset Management CO operating as Southport Capital Management (0.20%). Company insiders that own World Acceptance stock include Alice Lindsay Caulder, Jason E Childers, R Chad Prashad and Scott Mcintyre. View Institutional Ownership Trends for World Acceptance.

WRLD stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including First Trust Advisors LP, State Street Corp, State of Tennessee Treasury Department, Barclays PLC, Hancock Whitney Corp, California State Teachers Retirement System, Livingston Group Asset Management CO operating as Southport Capital Management and New York State Teachers Retirement System. Company insiders that have sold World Acceptance company stock in the last year include Alice Lindsay Caulder, Jason E Childers, R Chad Prashad and Scott Mcintyre. View Insider Buying and Selling for World Acceptance.

WRLD stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including California Public Employees Retirement System, Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Financial Architects Inc, Rhumbline Advisers, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co NY and Ingalls & Snyder LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for World Acceptance.

Shares of WRLD 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of WRLD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $93.76.

World Acceptance has a market capitalization of $742.11 million and generates $544.54 million in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $37.24 million in net income (profit) each year or $8.03 on an earnings per share basis. World Acceptance employs 3,624 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About World Acceptance.

The official website for World Acceptance is http://www.loansbyworld.com/.

World Acceptance's mailing address is 108 FREDRICK STREET, GREENVILLE SC, 29607. The credit services provider can be reached via phone at 864-298-9800.