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 data 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 earned $141.60 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate 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 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 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for World Acceptance's shares. Their forecasts range from $65.00 to $87.00. On average, they expect World Acceptance's stock price to reach $76.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 15.5%. 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 somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. World Acceptance earned a coverage optimism score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the credit services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for World Acceptance.

World Acceptance saw a increase in short interest in 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 trading volume of 109,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 15.6 days. Approximately 23.1% of the company's 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), 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 investors include Ingalls & Snyder LLC (0.93%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.20%), SeaCrest Wealth Management LLC (0.08%), Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (0.08%) 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 New York State Teachers Retirement System, Ingalls & Snyder LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Janney Montgomery Scott LLC. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including SeaCrest Wealth Management 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 $89.92.

World Acceptance has a market capitalization of $712.17 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.