NYSE:WRE - Washington Real Estate Investment Trust Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Washington Real Estate Investment Trust trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "WRE."

Washington Real Estate Investment Trust declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 15th. Investors of record on Friday, March 15th will be given a dividend of $0.30 per share on Friday, March 29th. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.47%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 14th. View Washington Real Estate Investment Trust's Dividend History.

Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE:WRE) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 14th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, meeting analysts' consensus estimates of $0.46. The real estate investment trust had revenue of $82.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $83.63 million. Washington Real Estate Investment Trust had a net margin of 6.64% and a return on equity of 2.05%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 2.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.45 earnings per share. View Washington Real Estate Investment Trust's Earnings History.

Washington Real Estate Investment Trust is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Washington Real Estate Investment Trust.

Washington Real Estate Investment Trust issued an update on its FY 2019 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 14th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.74-1.78 for the period. Washington Real Estate Investment Trust also updated its FY19 guidance to $1.74-$1.78 EPS.

5 brokerages have issued twelve-month price targets for Washington Real Estate Investment Trust's shares. Their forecasts range from $26.00 to $32.00. On average, they anticipate Washington Real Estate Investment Trust's stock price to reach $29.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Washington Real Estate Investment Trust.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Washington Real Estate Investment Trust in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Washington Real Estate Investment Trust.

News coverage about WRE stock has been trending somewhat positive on Tuesday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Washington Real Estate Investment Trust earned a news sentiment score of 1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.

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Washington Real Estate Investment Trust's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (10.39%), Thornburg Investment Management Inc. (3.93%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (3.75%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (2.49%), Northern Trust Corp (2.30%) and Nuveen Asset Management LLC (2.11%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Washington Real Estate Investment Trust.

WRE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Resolution Capital Ltd, Rothschild & Co. Asset Management US Inc., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Folger Nolan Fleming Douglas Capital Management Inc., Westpac Banking Corp, Stratos Wealth Partners LTD., Bank of America Corp DE and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. View Insider Buying and Selling for Washington Real Estate Investment Trust.

WRE stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., First Trust Advisors LP, Millennium Management LLC, Thornburg Investment Management Inc., Geode Capital Management LLC, D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., Truehand Inc and Northern Trust Corp. View Insider Buying and Selling for Washington Real Estate Investment Trust.

Shares of WRE 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of WRE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $26.82.

Washington Real Estate Investment Trust has a market capitalization of $2.14 billion and generates $325.08 million in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $19.66 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.82 on an earnings per share basis. Washington Real Estate Investment Trust employs 149 workers across the globe.

The official website for Washington Real Estate Investment Trust is http://www.washreit.com.

Washington Real Estate Investment Trust's mailing address is 1775 EYE STREET NW SUITE 1000, WASHINGTON DC, 20006. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at 202-774-3200 or via email at [email protected]