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 of Directors has initiated 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 purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE:WNS) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 18th. The business services provider reported $0.72 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.48 by $0.24. The business services provider earned $214.60 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $207.51 million. WNS had a net margin of 13.44% and a return on equity of 23.92%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 7.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.59 EPS. 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 earnings per share 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 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for WNS's stock. Their forecasts range from $65.00 to $72.00. On average, they anticipate WNS's stock price to reach $68.1429 in the next year. 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.

Media coverage about WNS stock has been trending negative this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. WNS earned a coverage optimism score of -2.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the business services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company'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 presently 0.6 days. Approximately 0.2% of the company's shares are short sold. 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), GrubHub (GRUB), CIELO S A/S (CIOXY), 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 a variety of of institutional and retail 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 purchased 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]