NYSE:WNS - WNS Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE:WNS) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 16th. The business services provider reported $0.80 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.60 by $0.20. The business services provider earned $228.20 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $222.59 million. WNS had a return on equity of 23.12% and a net margin of 13.13%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 14.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.73 EPS. View WNS's Earnings History.

WNS is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 23rd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for WNS.

WNS updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, January, 16th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.05-3.12 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $3.03. The company issued revenue guidance of $890-900 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $886.91 million.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for WNS's stock. Their forecasts range from $65.00 to $87.00. On average, they anticipate WNS's share price to reach $74.90 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 2.7% 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 and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for WNS.

Media coverage about WNS stock has been trending very negative this week, according to InfoTrie. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. WNS earned a media sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news 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 impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for WNS.

WNS saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 72,800 shares, an increase of 153.7% from the December 31st total of 28,700 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 172,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.4 days. Currently, 0.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View WNS's Current Options Chain.

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

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other WNS investors own include Cigna (CI), Square (SQ), Humana (HUM), AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), Procter & Gamble (PG), Visa (V), Cisco Systems (CSCO), QUALCOMM (QCOM) and Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET).

WNS's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Summit Creek Advisors LLC (0.61%), Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC (0.49%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.33%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.18%), Mckinley Capital Management LLC Delaware (0.13%) and Meritage Portfolio Management (0.13%).

WNS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Mckinley Capital Management LLC Delaware, Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, Henry James International Management Inc., Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd., Eqis Capital Management Inc., Calamos Advisors LLC and Meritage Portfolio Management.

WNS stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including California Public Employees Retirement System, Summit Creek Advisors LLC, Rothschild Investment Corp IL, Zeke Capital Advisors LLC, Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC, Fulton Bank N.A. and First Hawaiian Bank.

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 $72.96.

WNS has a market capitalization of $3.63 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]