NYSE:WBTWelbilt Stock Price, Forecast & News

Welbilt's stock was trading at $8.48 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, WBT shares have decreased by 32.3% and is now trading at $5.74. View which stocks have been most 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, August 4th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Welbilt.

Welbilt, Inc (NYSE:WBT) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May, 5th. The industrial products company reported $0.01 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting analysts' consensus estimates of $0.01. The industrial products company had revenue of $328.90 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $323.10 million. Welbilt had a net margin of 2.80% and a return on equity of 39.54%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 12.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.05 EPS. View Welbilt's earnings history.

Welbilt issued an update on 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 brokers have issued 1 year price objectives for Welbilt's stock. Their forecasts range from $8.00 to $20.00. On average, they anticipate Welbilt's share price to reach $13.80 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 140.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Welbilt.

Press coverage about WBT stock has trended negative on Friday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Welbilt earned a news impact score of -2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is very unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View the latest news about Welbilt.

Welbilt saw a decline in short interest in the month of June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 8,610,000 shares, a decline of 16.3% from the May 31st total of 10,290,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,760,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.1 days. Approximately 6.1% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Welbilt's Current Options Chain.

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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 $5.74.

Welbilt has a market capitalization of $812.20 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.

The official website for Welbilt is 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]