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

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

World Acceptance Corp. (NASDAQ:WRLD) released its earnings results on Thursday, January, 30th. The credit services provider reported ($0.78) EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.48 by $1.26. The credit services provider earned $147.10 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $152.64 million. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 6.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.67 EPS. View World Acceptance's Earnings History.

World Acceptance is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 14th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for World Acceptance.

2 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for World Acceptance's shares. Their forecasts range from $65.00 to $87.00. On average, they expect World Acceptance's share price to reach $76.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.2%. 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 1 sell rating and 1 hold rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for World Acceptance.

News coverage about WRLD stock has trended neutral on Sunday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog 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. World Acceptance earned a coverage optimism score of 0.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories 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 effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for World Acceptance.

World Acceptance saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,710,000 shares, an increase of 23.0% from the December 31st total of 1,390,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 109,900 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 15.6 days. Currently, 23.1% of the company's shares are short sold. View World Acceptance's Current Options Chain.

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

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World Acceptance's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include CAS Investment Partners LLC (7.54%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (3.21%), State Street Corp (2.37%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.04%), Ingalls & Snyder LLC (0.93%) and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.87%). 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 Renaissance Technologies LLC, Landscape Capital Management L.L.C., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Principal Financial Group Inc., State Street Corp, California Public Employees Retirement System, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. and New York State Common Retirement Fund. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including CAS Investment Partners LLC, Berylson Capital Partners LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Public Sector Pension Investment Board, Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC and Oxford Asset Management LLP. 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 $81.88.