WNS Stock Price, Forecast & Analysis (NYSE:WNS)

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

WNS declared that its board has initiated a stock buyback program on Thursday, January 18th 2018, which allows the company to buyback 3,300,000 outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are generally a sign that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE:WNS) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 17th. The business services provider reported $0.79 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.67 by $0.12. The business services provider had revenue of $220.70 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $216.08 million. WNS had a net margin of 13.47% and a return on equity of 23.57%. The business's revenue was up 12.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.65 EPS. View WNS's Earnings History.

WNS is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 16th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for WNS.

WNS updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, October, 17th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.93-3.08 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.88. The company issued revenue guidance of $861-892 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $882.28 million.

10 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for WNS's shares. Their forecasts range from $65.00 to $74.00. On average, they anticipate WNS's share price to reach $69.60 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 10.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for WNS.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for WNS in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating, 8 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for WNS.

News coverage about WNS stock has been trending extremely negative on Tuesday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. WNS earned a media sentiment score of -4.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles 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 effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for WNS.

WNS saw a decline in short interest in October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 17,900 shares, a decline of 68.7% from the September 30th total of 57,100 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 182,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.1 days. Approximately 0.0% of the company's stock are short sold. View WNS's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other WNS investors own include Cigna (CI), Square (SQ), Humana (HUM), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Summit Materials (SUM), Visa (V), salesforce.com (CRM), Target (TGT), Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Starbucks (SBUX).

WNS's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include TimesSquare Capital Management LLC (2.83%), Rice Hall James & Associates LLC (1.59%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.07%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.64%), Pembroke Management LTD (0.59%) and Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC (0.54%).

WNS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Skyline Asset Management LP, Pembroke Management LTD, Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC, Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc., Rice Hall James & Associates LLC, Meritage Portfolio Management and First Trust Advisors LP.

WNS stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Tygh Capital Management Inc., Summit Creek Advisors LLC, WCM Investment Management LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Origin Asset Management LLP, California Public Employees Retirement System, River & Mercantile Asset Management LLP and Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC.

Shares of WNS 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 WNS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $63.08.

WNS has a market capitalization of $3.14 billion and generates $809.10 million in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $105.43 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.25 on an earnings per share basis. WNS employs 39,898 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About WNS.

The official website for WNS is http://www.wns.com/.

WNS's mailing address is GATE 4 GODREJ & BOYCE, MUMBAI K7, 400079. The business services provider can be reached via phone at 91-22-4095-2100 or via email at [email protected]