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 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.60 by $0.20. The business services provider had revenue of $228.20 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $222.59 million. WNS had a net margin of 13.13% and a return on equity of 23.12%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 14.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company 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 issued an update on 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 estimate of $3.03. The company issued revenue guidance of $890-900 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $886.91 million.

10 analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for WNS's shares. Their forecasts range from $65.00 to $87.00. On average, they expect WNS's share price to reach $74.90 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 4.2% 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.

News stories about WNS stock have been trending extremely negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public 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 -4.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the business services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for WNS.

WNS saw a increase in short interest in 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 presently 0.4 days. Approximately 0.2% of the company's shares are sold short. View WNS's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to WNS include Fair Isaac (FICO), The Western Union (WU), Zillow Group (Z), Zillow Group (ZG), WEX (WEX), Nielsen (NLSN), CDK Global (CDK), Etsy (ETSY), GrubHub (GRUB), Healthequity (HQY), Alliance Data Systems (ADS), MAXIMUS (MMS), Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (RBA), 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Summit Creek Advisors LLC (0.61%), Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC (0.49%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.18%), Mckinley Capital Management LLC Delaware (0.13%), Eqis Capital Management Inc. (0.06%) and Henry James International Management Inc. (0.05%).

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. and Calamos Advisors LLC.

WNS stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including 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 $71.91.

WNS has a market capitalization of $3.58 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]