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 quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 30th. The credit services provider reported ($0.78) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.48 by $1.26. The credit services provider earned $147.10 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $152.64 million. World Acceptance had a net margin of 7.69% and a return on equity of 11.21%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 6.9% on a year-over-year basis. 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 brokers have issued 12-month price targets 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 year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.7%. 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 headlines about WRLD stock have been trending very positive on Thursday, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. World Acceptance earned a media sentiment score of 3.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the credit services provider a news buzz of 9.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for World Acceptance.

World Acceptance saw a decline in short interest in the month of February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totalling 1,600,000 shares, a decline of 7.5% from the January 30th total of 1,730,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 102,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 15.7 days. Currently, 21.6% of the company's shares are short sold. View World Acceptance's Current Options Chain.

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World Acceptance's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include CAS Investment Partners LLC (7.54%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (3.21%), State Street Corp (2.37%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.10%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.04%) and Ingalls & Snyder LLC (0.93%). 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 acquired 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 $82.32.

World Acceptance has a market capitalization of $652.76 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 104 S MAIN STREET, GREENVILLE SC, 29606. The credit services provider can be reached via phone at 864-298-9800.