NYSE:WEXWEX Stock Price, Forecast & News

WEX's stock was trading at $135.82 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, WEX stock has increased by 15.2% and is now trading at $156.48. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for WEX in the last year. There are currently 8 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for WEX.

WEX is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 6th 2020. View our earnings forecast for WEX.

WEX Inc (NYSE:WEX) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May, 7th. The business services provider reported $1.81 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $2.05 by $0.24. The business services provider had revenue of $431.70 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $427.21 million. WEX had a return on equity of 19.68% and a net margin of 3.76%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 13.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.72 earnings per share. View WEX's earnings history.

15 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for WEX's stock. Their forecasts range from $147.00 to $260.00. On average, they anticipate WEX's stock price to reach $202.73 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 29.6% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for WEX.

Media headlines about WEX stock have trended positive recently, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. WEX earned a media sentiment score of 2.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the business services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutWEX.

WEX saw a increase in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,750,000 shares, an increase of 15.9% from the April 30th total of 1,510,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 749,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.3 days. Currently, 4.1% of the shares of the company are sold short. View WEX's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other WEX investors own include Home Depot (HD), NVIDIA (NVDA), Adobe (ADBE), ServiceNow (NOW), Paypal (PYPL), Mastercard (MA), Zoetis (ZTS), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Lululemon Athletica (LULU) and Boeing (BA).

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

WEX's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Wellington Management Group LLP (9.45%), BlackRock Inc. (9.04%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (7.89%), Atlanta Capital Management Co. L L C (5.86%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (3.53%) and Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA (2.63%). Company insiders that own WEX stock include David G Cooper, Hilary A Rapkin, Jack Vanwoerkom, Melanie J Tinto, Melissa D Smith, Michael E Dubyak, Nicola S Morris, Regina O Sommer, Roberto Simon, Rowland Moriarty and Scott Robert Phillips. View institutional ownership trends for WEX.

WEX stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wells Fargo & Company MN, Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, TimesSquare Capital Management LLC, Invesco Ltd., Janus Henderson Group PLC, Loomis Sayles & Co. L P, State of Michigan Retirement System, and Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA. Company insiders that have sold WEX company stock in the last year include Melanie J Tinto, Melissa D Smith, Nicola S Morris, Regina O Sommer, Roberto Simon, and Scott Robert Phillips. View insider buying and selling activity for WEX.

WEX stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bessemer Group Inc., FDx Advisors Inc., FDx Advisors Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Atlanta Capital Management Co. L L C, Balyasny Asset Management LLC, Wellington Management Group LLP, and Jane Street Group LLC. View insider buying and selling activity for WEX.

Shares of WEX 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 WEX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $156.48.

WEX has a market capitalization of $6.81 billion and generates $1.72 billion in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $99.01 million in net income (profit) each year or $8.34 on an earnings per share basis. WEX employs 5,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for WEX is www.wexinc.com.

WEX's mailing address is 1 Hancock Street, SOUTH PORTLAND ME, 04101. The business services provider can be reached via phone at 207-773-8171 or via email at [email protected]