Advanced Drainage Systems - WMS Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Advanced Drainage Systems in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" WMS shares.
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6 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for Advanced Drainage Systems' shares. Their WMS share price forecasts range from $120.00 to $164.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $133.80 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 38.8% from the stock's current price.
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Advanced Drainage Systems' stock was trading at $136.13 at the start of the year. Since then, WMS stock has decreased by 29.2% and is now trading at $96.42.
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Advanced Drainage Systems saw a increase in short interest during the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,770,000 shares, an increase of 18.4% from the October 15th total of 2,340,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 759,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.6 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 2nd 2023.
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Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. (NYSE:WMS) released its earnings results on Thursday, November, 3rd. The construction company reported $1.80 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.88 by $0.08. The construction company earned $884.20 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $928.04 million. Advanced Drainage Systems had a net margin of 14.34% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 51.62%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 25.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.88 EPS.

Advanced Drainage Systems declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 3rd. Investors of record on Thursday, December 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.12 per share on Thursday, December 15th. This represents a $0.48 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.50%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 30th.
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Advanced Drainage Systems (NYSE:WMS) pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.50%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 8.86%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, WMS will have a dividend payout ratio of 8.08% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Advanced Drainage Systems updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 10th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.10 billion-$3.20 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.33 billion.

39 employees have rated Advanced Drainage Systems Chief Executive Officer Joe Chlapaty on Glassdoor.com. Joe Chlapaty has an approval rating of 54% among the company's employees. This puts Joe Chlapaty in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 53.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Advanced Drainage Systems to a friend.

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Advanced Drainage Systems trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "WMS."

Advanced Drainage Systems' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (7.71%), BlackRock Inc. (4.04%), Impax Asset Management Group plc (3.02%), Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (2.74%), Boston Partners (2.12%) and Pictet Asset Management SA (1.55%). Insiders that own company stock include Alexander R Fischer, Anil Seetharam, Berkshire Partners Holdings Ll, Brian W King, Darin S Harvey, De La Mesa Manuel J Perez, Ewout Leeuwenburg, Kevin C Talley, Mark Haney, Michael B Coleman, Michael G Huebert, Robert M Eversole, Robert M Klein, Ronald R Vitarelli, Ross M Jones and Tim A Makowski.
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One share of WMS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $96.42.

Advanced Drainage Systems (NYSE:WMS) has a market capitalization of $7.99 billion and generates $2.77 billion in revenue each year. The construction company earns $271.33 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.42 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 5,635 workers across the globe.

Advanced Drainage Systems' mailing address is 4640 TRUEMAN BOULEVARD, HILLIARD OH, 43026. The official website for the company is www.ads-pipe.com. The construction company can be reached via phone at (800) 821-6710, via email at investorrelations@ads-pipe.com, or via fax at 614-658-0204.