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

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

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

WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE:WNS) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 17th. The business services provider reported $0.79 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate 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 return on equity of 23.57% and a net margin of 13.47%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 12.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.65 earnings per share. 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 EPS guidance of $2.93-3.08 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.88. The company issued revenue guidance of $861-892 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $882.28 million.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for WNS's shares. Their predictions range from $65.00 to $74.00. On average, they expect WNS's stock price to reach $69.60 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 13.3% 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 trended somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie reports. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. WNS earned a news impact score of -1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the business services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for WNS.

WNS saw a decrease in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 44,400 shares, a decrease of 11.4% from the August 30th total of 50,100 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 151,900 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.3 days. Approximately 0.1% of the company's shares are sold short. 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), Visa (V), Summit Materials (SUM), salesforce.com (CRM), Target (TGT), Cisco Systems (CSCO) and NVIDIA (NVDA).

WNS's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC (0.54%), Summit Creek Advisors LLC (0.53%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.24%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.18%), Skyline Asset Management LP (0.18%) and Henry James International Management Inc. (0.06%).

WNS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Skyline Asset Management LP, Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc. and Financial Gravity Wealth Inc..

WNS stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Summit Creek Advisors LLC, Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC, Henry James International Management Inc., First Hawaiian Bank, Simplex Trading LLC, Calamos Advisors LLC and Confluence Investment Management 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 $61.42.

WNS has a market capitalization of $3.09 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]