World Acceptance Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:WRLD)

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

World Acceptance Corp. (NASDAQ:WRLD) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 25th. The credit services provider reported $0.97 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $2.05 by $1.08. The credit services provider had revenue of $138.40 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $134.64 million. World Acceptance had a net margin of 12.02% and a return on equity of 11.94%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 12.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $1.69 EPS. View World Acceptance's Earnings History.

World Acceptance is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 7th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for World Acceptance.

2 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for World Acceptance's stock. Their predictions range from $65.00 to $87.00. On average, they expect World Acceptance's stock price to reach $76.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 37.7%. 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 2 sell ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Sell." View Analyst Ratings for World Acceptance.

Media coverage about WRLD stock has trended very negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by reviewing 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 news sentiment score of -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the credit services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock'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 September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,060,000 shares, an increase of 6.0% from the August 15th total of 1,000,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 146,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 7.2 days. Approximately 12.5% 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Ingalls & Snyder LLC (0.85%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.05%), Bowling Portfolio Management LLC (0.05%) and Alpha Windward LLC (0.04%). 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 Alpha Windward 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 Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Ingalls & Snyder 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 $122.02.

World Acceptance has a market capitalization of $1.10 billion 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.