Weingarten Realty Investors Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Weingarten Realty Investors in the last twelve months. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" Weingarten Realty Investors stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in WRI, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Weingarten Realty Investors saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 28th, there was short interest totaling 2,360,000 shares, an increase of 29.7% from the May 13th total of 1,820,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,240,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.9 days. Approximately 2.0% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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Weingarten Realty Investors is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 4th 2021.
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Weingarten Realty Investors (NYSE:WRI) announced its quarterly earnings results on Sunday, April, 25th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.22 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.41 by $0.19. The real estate investment trust had revenue of $118.32 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $104.99 million. Weingarten Realty Investors had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 4.80% and a net margin of 19.72%. Weingarten Realty Investors's revenue for the quarter was up 9.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.44 EPS.
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Weingarten Realty Investors' stock was trading at $22.64 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, WRI stock has increased by 42.0% and is now trading at $32.15.
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Weingarten Realty Investors announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, April 26th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 10th will be given a dividend of $0.23 per share on Tuesday, June 15th. This represents a $0.92 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.86%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, June 9th.
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Weingarten Realty Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.94%. The dividend payout ratio of Weingarten Realty Investors is 55.76%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Weingarten Realty Investors will have a dividend payout ratio of 50.27% next year. This indicates that Weingarten Realty Investors will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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6 brokers have issued twelve-month target prices for Weingarten Realty Investors' stock. Their forecasts range from $19.00 to $30.00. On average, they expect Weingarten Realty Investors' stock price to reach $26.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 19.1%.
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11 employees have rated Weingarten Realty Investors CEO Drew Alexander on Glassdoor.com. Drew Alexander has an approval rating of 50% among Weingarten Realty Investors' employees. This puts Drew Alexander in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 53.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Weingarten Realty Investors to a friend.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Weingarten Realty Investors investors own include Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), Realty Income (O), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Energy Transfer (ET), AT&T (T), Simon Property Group (SPG), Intel (INTC), 3M (MMM), Ventas (VTR) and AbbVie (ABBV).

Weingarten Realty Investors trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "WRI."

Weingarten Realty Investors' stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include JPMorgan Chase & Co. (10.69%), BlackRock Inc. (10.47%), Cohen & Steers Inc. (4.61%), Millennium Management LLC (2.37%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.83%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.72%). Company insiders that own Weingarten Realty Investors stock include Shelaghmichael C Brown and Stephen A Lasher.
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WRI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Centersquare Investment Management LLC, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Morgan Stanley, Geode Capital Management LLC, Northern Trust Corp, Gillson Capital LP, and Nuveen Asset Management LLC.
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WRI stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cohen & Steers Inc., Millennium Management LLC, Capital Growth Management LP, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Kempen Capital Management N.V., Allianz Asset Management GmbH, and BlackRock Inc..
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Shares of WRI can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of WRI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $32.15.

Weingarten Realty Investors has a market capitalization of $4.10 billion and generates $433.92 million in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $112.15 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.65 on an earnings per share basis.

Weingarten Realty Investors employs 243 workers across the globe.

The official website for Weingarten Realty Investors is www.weingarten.com.

Weingarten Realty Investors is headquartered at 2600 CITADEL PLAZA DRIVE, HOUSTON TX, 77292.

Weingarten Realty Investors' mailing address is 2600 CITADEL PLAZA DRIVE, HOUSTON TX, 77292. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at 713-866-6000 or via email at [email protected]