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

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

World Acceptance Corp. (NASDAQ:WRLD) issued its quarterly earnings data 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 had revenue of $147.10 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $152.64 million. World Acceptance had a return on equity of 11.21% and a net margin of 7.69%. The company's revenue was up 6.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.67 earnings per share. 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 twelve-month price targets 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 11.0%. 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 coverage about WRLD stock has trended somewhat negative on Wednesday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. World Acceptance earned a daily sentiment score of -1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the credit services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. 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 trading volume of 109,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 15.6 days. Currently, 23.1% of the company's stock 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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors 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 purchased 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 $85.37.

World Acceptance has a market capitalization of $676.98 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.