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) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 16th. The business services provider reported $0.80 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' 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 was up 14.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.73 earnings per share. 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 (EPS) 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 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for WNS's stock. Their forecasts range from $65.00 to $90.00. On average, they anticipate WNS's share price to reach $75.20 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 4.7% 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, 8 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 trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. WNS earned a news impact score of 1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the business services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news 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 decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 46,700 shares, a decrease of 35.9% from the January 15th total of 72,800 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 176,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.3 days. Currently, 0.1% of the company's stock are sold short. View WNS's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to WNS include Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Zillow Group (ZG), LYFT (LYFT), Zillow Group (Z), Fair Isaac (FICO), The Western Union (WU), WEX (WEX), Nielsen (NLSN), Etsy (ETSY), CDK Global (CDK), Healthequity (HQY), GrubHub (GRUB), Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (RBA), Alliance Data Systems (ADS) and MAXIMUS (MMS).

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 FMR LLC (9.59%), Acadian Asset Management LLC (3.07%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (2.78%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.15%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.15%) and Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.06%).

WNS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Acadian Asset Management LLC, Principal Financial Group Inc., FMR LLC, Barclays PLC, Oxford Asset Management LLP, Mckinley Capital Management LLC Delaware and Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC.

WNS stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Westfield Capital Management Co. LP, WCM Investment Management LLC, Axiom International Investors LLC DE, Victory Capital Management Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., AJO LP, Russell Investments Group Ltd. and Standard Life Aberdeen plc.

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 $71.79.

WNS has a market capitalization of $3.57 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]