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

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

World Acceptance Corp. (NASDAQ:WRLD) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 31st. The credit services provider reported $0.51 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.14 by $0.63. The credit services provider had revenue of $141.60 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $145.72 million. World Acceptance had a net margin of 9.92% and a return on equity of 11.02%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 11.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.56 EPS. 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 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for World Acceptance's stock. 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 17.0%. 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.

Media stories about WRLD stock have been trending extremely negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing 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. World Acceptance earned a news sentiment score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the credit services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for World Acceptance.

World Acceptance saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,710,000 shares, an increase of 23.0% from the December 15th total of 1,390,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 114,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 15.0 days. Approximately 23.1% of the company's stock are sold short. 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), EZCORP (EZPW), Regional Management (RM), Nicholas Financial (NICK) and Asta Funding (ASFI).

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World Acceptance's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Ingalls & Snyder LLC (0.93%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.05%). 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 Ingalls & Snyder LLC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. 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.

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 $91.57.

World Acceptance has a market capitalization of $725.23 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.