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

World Acceptance's stock was trading at $64.22 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, WRLD stock has decreased by 10.5% and is now trading at $57.50. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

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.

World Acceptance is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 14th 2020. View our earnings forecast for World Acceptance.

World Acceptance Corp. (NASDAQ:WRLD) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 30th. The credit services provider reported ($0.78) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.48 by $1.26. The credit services provider earned $147.10 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $152.64 million. World Acceptance had a return on equity of 11.21% and a net margin of 7.69%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 6.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.67 EPS. View World Acceptance's earnings history.

2 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for World Acceptance's shares. Their forecasts range from $65.00 to $87.00. On average, they anticipate World Acceptance's stock price to reach $76.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 32.2% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for World Acceptance.

News headlines about WRLD stock have trended very negative on Tuesday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. World Acceptance earned a daily sentiment score of -3.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the credit services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news aboutWorld Acceptance.

World Acceptance saw a decrease in short interest during the month of February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totaling 1,600,000 shares, a decrease of 7.5% from the January 30th total of 1,730,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 102,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 15.7 days. Approximately 21.6% 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), Green Dot (GDOT), Pra Group (PRAA), Encore Capital Group (ECPG), EZCORP (EZPW), Regional Management (RM), Nicholas Financial (NICK) and Asta Funding (ASFI).

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

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One share of WRLD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $57.50.

World Acceptance has a market capitalization of $456.09 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.