NYSE:WBTWelbilt Stock Price, Forecast & News

Welbilt's stock was trading at $8.48 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, WBT stock has decreased by 46.3% and is now trading at $4.55. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Welbilt in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Welbilt.

Welbilt is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 5th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Welbilt.

Welbilt, Inc (NYSE:WBT) announced its earnings results on Tuesday, February, 25th. The industrial products company reported $0.19 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.17 by $0.02. The industrial products company earned $381.80 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $400.51 million. Welbilt had a return on equity of 43.49% and a net margin of 3.51%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 6.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.18 EPS. View Welbilt's earnings history.

Welbilt updated its first quarter 2020 IntraDay earnings guidance on Monday, April, 6th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $322.758-326.511 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $332.38 million.

5 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Welbilt's shares. Their forecasts range from $6.50 to $20.00. On average, they anticipate Welbilt's share price to reach $13.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 196.7% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Welbilt.

Media headlines about WBT stock have trended very negative on Tuesday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Welbilt earned a media sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the industrial products company 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 next few days. View the latest news aboutWelbilt.

Welbilt saw a decrease in short interest during the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 8,960,900 shares, a decrease of 12.8% from the February 27th total of 10,280,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,190,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 7.5 days. Currently, 6.4% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Welbilt's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Welbilt investors own include Manitowoc (MTW), Progenics Pharmaceuticals (PGNX), WPX Energy (WPX), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), Coty (COTY), Pure Storage (PSTG), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Caterpillar (CAT), Ford Motor (F) and Visa (V).

Welbilt trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "WBT."

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One share of WBT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $4.55.

Welbilt has a market capitalization of $643.73 million and generates $1.59 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $55.90 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.68 on an earnings per share basis. Welbilt employs 5,100 workers across the globe. View additional information about Welbilt.

The official website for Welbilt is http://www.manitowocfoodservice.com/.

Welbilt's mailing address is 2227 WELBILT BOULEVARD, NEW PORT RICHEY FL, 34655. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 727-375-7010 or via email at [email protected]