NYSE:WBC - WABCO Stock Price, News, & Analysis

WABCO trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "WBC."

WABCO Holdings Inc. (NYSE:WBC) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 18th. The auto parts company reported $1.78 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.59 by $0.19. The auto parts company had revenue of $914.80 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $932.66 million. WABCO had a net margin of 11.62% and a return on equity of 33.10%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 10.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.71 earnings per share. View WABCO's Earnings History.

WABCO is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 15th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for WABCO.

WABCO issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Thursday, October, 18th. The company provided EPS guidance of $7.65-7.85 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $7.48. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.85-3.90 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.90 billion.WABCO also updated its FY 2018 guidance to $7.65-7.85 EPS.

12 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for WABCO's stock. Their forecasts range from $95.00 to $160.00. On average, they expect WABCO's stock price to reach $131.80 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 15.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for WABCO.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for WABCO in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for WABCO.

News headlines about WBC stock have trended neutral on Thursday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of 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 positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. WABCO earned a news impact score of 0.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the auto parts company a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.

WABCO saw a decline in short interest in September. As of September 28th, there was short interest totalling 794,567 shares, a decline of 32.5% from the September 14th total of 1,176,543 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 525,890 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.5 days. Approximately 1.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View WABCO's Current Options Chain.

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WABCO's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (6.59%), BlackRock Inc. (5.14%), American Century Companies Inc. (4.12%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2.28%), First Manhattan Co. (1.92%) and Wells Fargo & Company MN (1.68%). Company insiders that own WABCO stock include G Peter Daloia, Jacques Esculier, Juergen Gromer, Lisa Jane Brown, Mazen Mazraani, Nicolas Bardot, Sean Deason and Thomas Gross. View Institutional Ownership Trends for WABCO.

WBC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alliancebernstein L.P., Eagle Asset Management Inc., Carillon Tower Advisers Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Deutsche Bank AG and Renaissance Technologies LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for WABCO.

WBC stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Villere ST Denis J & Co. LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Fiduciary Management Inc. WI, Pictet Asset Management Ltd., First Manhattan Co. and Janus Henderson Group PLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for WABCO.

Shares of WBC 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of WBC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $114.37.

WABCO has a market capitalization of $5.81 billion and generates $3.30 billion in revenue each year. The auto parts company earns $406.10 million in net income (profit) each year or $6.86 on an earnings per share basis. WABCO employs 14,631 workers across the globe.

The official website for WABCO is http://www.wabco-auto.com.

WABCO's mailing address is Chaussee de la Hulpe 166, Brussels C9, 1170. The auto parts company can be reached via phone at 32-2663-9800 or via email at [email protected]