NASDAQ:WSCWillScot Stock Price, Forecast & News

WillScot's stock was trading at $11.73 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, WSC stock has increased by 51.2% and is now trading at $17.74.
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8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for WillScot in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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WillScot is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 5th 2020.
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WillScot Corp (NASDAQ:WSC) issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, August, 10th. The company reported $0.10 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.06 by $0.04. The company had revenue of $256.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $256.40 million. WillScot had a positive return on equity of 4.36% and a negative net margin of 0.41%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 2.6% on a year-over-year basis.
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WillScot issued an update on its FY 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Monday, August, 10th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.6-1.7 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.36 billion.

8 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for WillScot's stock. Their forecasts range from $16.00 to $22.00. On average, they expect WillScot's stock price to reach $18.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 4.3% from the stock's current price.
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News articles about WSC stock have been trending extremely negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. WillScot earned a daily sentiment score of -4.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.
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WillScot saw a decline in short interest in July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 8,320,000 shares, a decline of 33.3% from the June 30th total of 12,470,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,730,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.8 days. Approximately 17.8% of the company's shares are short sold.
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WillScot trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "WSC."

WillScot's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include TimesSquare Capital Management LLC (2.51%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (0.76%), Tygh Capital Management Inc. (0.58%), Lonestar Capital Management LLC (0.54%), Aperture Investors LLC (0.25%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.17%). Company insiders that own WillScot stock include Bradley Lee Soultz, Jeffrey Sagansky, Mark S Bartlett and Rebecca L Owen.
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WSC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Tygh Capital Management Inc., Zazove Associates LLC, Zazove Associates LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, Falcon Point Capital LLC, SG Americas Securities LLC, Lonestar Capital Management LLC, and AlphaCrest Capital Management LLC.
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WSC stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including TimesSquare Capital Management LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., CIBC Asset Management Inc, Aperture Investors LLC, Picton Mahoney Asset Management, Natixis Advisors L.P., Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, and Swiss National Bank. Company insiders that have bought WillScot stock in the last two years include Bradley Lee Soultz, Mark S Bartlett, and Rebecca L Owen.
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Shares of WSC 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 WSC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $17.74.

WillScot has a market capitalization of $2.10 billion and generates $1.06 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $-11,120,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.23 on an earnings per share basis. WillScot employs 2,500 workers across the globe.

The official website for WillScot is www.willscot.com.

WillScot's mailing address is 901 S. BOND STREET SUITE 600, BALTIMORE MD, 21231. The company can be reached via phone at 410-931-6000 or via email at [email protected]