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

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

WNS announced that its board has initiated a stock buyback plan on Thursday, January 18th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase 3,300,000 outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are often a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE:WNS) posted its earnings results on Thursday, July, 18th. The business services provider reported $0.72 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.48 by $0.24. The business services provider earned $214.60 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $207.51 million. WNS had a net margin of 13.44% and a return on equity of 23.92%. The firm's revenue was up 7.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.59 earnings per share. View WNS's Earnings History.

WNS is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for WNS.

WNS updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, July, 18th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.75-2.95 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.80. The company issued revenue guidance of $855-895 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $873.02 million.

7 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for WNS's shares. Their predictions range from $65.00 to $72.00. On average, they anticipate WNS's stock price to reach $68.1429 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 12.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for WNS.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for WNS in the last year. There are currently 6 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for WNS.

News headlines about WNS stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. WNS earned a news impact score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the business services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for WNS.

WNS saw a increase in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 87,200 shares, an increase of 12.7% from the July 31st total of 77,400 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 150,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.6 days. Approximately 0.2% of the company's stock are sold short. View WNS's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to WNS include The Western Union (WU), Fair Isaac (FICO), WEX (WEX), Nielsen (NLSN), Etsy (ETSY), Alliance Data Systems (ADS), Zillow Group (Z), Zillow Group (ZG), CDK Global (CDK), CIELO S A/S (CIOXY), GrubHub (GRUB), MAXIMUS (MMS), TriNet Group (TNET), Healthequity (HQY) and Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (RBA).

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

WNS's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. (14.56%), Acadian Asset Management LLC (3.40%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (2.93%), TimesSquare Capital Management LLC (2.79%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (2.47%) and Grandeur Peak Global Advisors LLC (2.14%).

WNS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Waddell & Reed Financial Inc., Intrinsic Edge Capital Management LLC, TimesSquare Capital Management LLC, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Mckinley Capital Management LLC Delaware, Invesco Ltd., Todd Asset Management LLC and Allianz Asset Management GmbH.

WNS stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Summit Creek Advisors LLC, Calamos Advisors LLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Corp DE, Pendal Group Ltd and Marshall Wace LLP.

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 $60.64.

WNS has a market capitalization of $3.05 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]