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

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

World Acceptance Corp. (NASDAQ:WRLD) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 31st. The credit services provider reported $0.51 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.14 by $0.63. The credit services provider earned $141.60 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates 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 period last year, the company earned $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 equities research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for World Acceptance's stock. 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 17.0%. 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 been trending positive this week, according to InfoTrie. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing 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 five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. World Acceptance earned a news sentiment score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the credit services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning 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 during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,710,000 shares, an increase of 23.0% from the December 15th total of 1,390,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 114,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 15.0 days. Currently, 23.1% of the shares of the company are sold short. 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).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other World Acceptance investors own include Prudential Financial (PRU), Concert Pharmaceuticals (CNCE), Eyepoint Pharmaceuticals (EYPT), Netflix (NFLX), PTC Therapeutics (PTCT), Tesla (TSLA), Bausch Health Companies (BHC), Square (SQ), TransEnterix (TRXC) and Abeona Therapeutics (ABEO).

World Acceptance's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Ingalls & Snyder LLC (0.93%) 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 Ingalls & Snyder LLC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. 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.

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 $91.57.

World Acceptance has a market capitalization of $725.23 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.