Willis Towers Watson Public - WTW Stock Forecast, Price & News

Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company operates as an advisory, broking, and solutions company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Health, Wealth and Career; and Risk and Broking. The company offers actuarial support, plan design, and administrative services for traditional pension and retirement savings plans; plan management consulting, broking, and administration services for health and group benefit programs; and benefits outsourcing services. It also provides advice, data, software, and products to address clients' total rewards and talent issues. In addition, the company offers risk advice, insurance brokerage, and consulting services in the areas of property and casualty, aerospace, construction, and marine. Further, it offers investment consulting and discretionary management services to insurance and reinsurance companies; insurance consulting and technology, risk and capital management, pricing and predictive modeling, financial and regulatory reporting, financial and capital modeling, merger and acquisition, outsourcing, and business management services; wholesale insurance broking services to retail and wholesale brokers; and underwriting and capital management, capital market, and advisory and brokerage services. Additionally, the company provides primary medical and ancillary benefit exchange, and outsourcing services to active employees and retirees in the group and individual markets, as well as delivers healthcare and reimbursement accounts, including health savings accounts, health reimbursement arrangements, flexible spending accounts, and other consumer-directed accounts. The company was formerly known as Willis Group Holdings Public Limited Company and changed its name to Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company in January 2016. Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company was founded in 1828 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

Willis Towers Watson Public Price Performance

Shares of WTW opened at $219.80 on Monday. The business's 50 day moving average price is $201.82 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $216.51. The firm has a market cap of $24.17 billion, a PE ratio of 7.80, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.98 and a beta of 0.78. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.45, a quick ratio of 2.57 and a current ratio of 2.57. Willis Towers Watson Public has a 52-week low of $187.89 and a 52-week high of $249.70.

Willis Towers Watson Public (NASDAQ:WTW - Get Rating) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, July 28th. The company reported $2.32 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting analysts' consensus estimates of $2.32. Willis Towers Watson Public had a net margin of 39.87% and a return on equity of 13.06%. The business had revenue of $2.03 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.07 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $2.66 EPS. Willis Towers Watson Public's revenue was down 2.9% on a year-over-year basis. On average, equities analysts anticipate that Willis Towers Watson Public will post 13.6 EPS for the current year.

Willis Towers Watson Public Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, July 15th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 30th were paid a dividend of $0.82 per share. This represents a $3.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.49%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, June 29th. Willis Towers Watson Public's dividend payout ratio is 11.64%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

WTW has been the subject of several research analyst reports. The Goldman Sachs Group assumed coverage on shares of Willis Towers Watson Public in a report on Tuesday, July 12th. They issued a "neutral" rating and a $227.00 target price for the company. Jefferies Financial Group dropped their price target on shares of Willis Towers Watson Public from $237.00 to $218.00 and set a "hold" rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, July 12th. Finally, Morgan Stanley decreased their price target on shares of Willis Towers Watson Public from $242.00 to $222.00 and set an "equal weight" rating for the company in a report on Monday, May 23rd. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating and six have issued a hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of "Hold" and an average target price of $231.00.

Insider Activity

In related news, insider Julie Jarecke Gebauer sold 1,400 shares of Willis Towers Watson Public stock in a transaction on Thursday, August 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $210.01, for a total transaction of $294,014.00. Following the transaction, the insider now owns 92,555 shares in the company, valued at approximately $19,437,475.55. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Corporate insiders own 0.83% of the company's stock.