Williams-Sonoma Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:WSM)

16 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Williams-Sonoma in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "reduce" WSM shares.
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16 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Williams-Sonoma's shares. Their WSM share price targets range from $123.00 to $185.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $154.31 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 20.4%.
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Williams-Sonoma's stock was trading at $114.92 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, WSM shares have increased by 68.8% and is now trading at $193.93.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, March 21st 2024.
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Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (NYSE:WSM) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 16th. The specialty retailer reported $3.66 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $3.34 by $0.32. The specialty retailer had revenue of $1.85 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.95 billion. Williams-Sonoma had a net margin of 11.99% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 59.65%.

Williams-Sonoma declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, September 14th. Shareholders of record on Friday, October 20th will be given a dividend of $0.90 per share on Friday, November 24th. This represents a $3.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.86%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, October 19th.
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Williams-Sonoma (NYSE:WSM) pays an annual dividend of $3.60 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.84%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 18 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 24.98%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, WSM will have a dividend payout ratio of 24.32% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Williams-Sonoma (NYSE:WSM) stock in their portfolio include Global X E-Commerce ETF (EBIZ), ProShares Online Retail ETF (ONLN), SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB), ProShares Long Online/Short Stores ETF (CLIX), The Acquirers Fund (ZIG), ProShares S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats ETF (REGL), Invesco S&P MidCap Quality ETF (XMHQ) and Freedom Day Dividend ETF (MBOX).

Williams-Sonoma issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 16th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $7.63 billion-$7.81 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $7.92 billion.

992 employees have rated Williams-Sonoma Chief Executive Officer Laura J. Alber on Glassdoor.com. Laura J. Alber has an approval rating of 55% among the company's employees. This puts Laura J. Alber in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 46.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Williams-Sonoma to a friend.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Williams-Sonoma investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Alibaba Group (BABA), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Micron Technology (MU), AT&T (T), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Starbucks (SBUX) and Salesforce (CRM).

Williams-Sonoma's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (11.42%), Aristotle Capital Management LLC (7.18%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (2.27%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.30%), Northern Trust Corp (1.11%) and Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.04%). Insiders that own company stock include Alex Bellos, David Randolph King, Julie Whalen, Karalyn Smith, Laura Alber, Marta Benson, Ryan Ross and Sabrina Simmons.
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