NYSE:WSOWatsco Stock Price, Forecast & News

Watsco's stock was trading at $164.89 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, WSO shares have increased by 44.9% and is now trading at $238.86.
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8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Watsco in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Watsco is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 15th 2020.
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Watsco Inc (NYSE:WSO) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 23rd. The construction company reported $2.26 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.88 by $0.38. The construction company had revenue of $1.36 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.31 billion. Watsco had a net margin of 4.77% and a return on equity of 13.38%. The business's revenue was down .9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $2.40 earnings per share.
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Watsco declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 2nd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, July 16th will be given a dividend of $1.775 per share on Friday, July 31st. This represents a $7.10 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.97%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, July 15th.
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8 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for Watsco's shares. Their forecasts range from $130.00 to $195.00. On average, they anticipate Watsco's stock price to reach $168.60 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 29.4%.
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Headlines about WSO stock have trended negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Watsco earned a news sentiment score of -2.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the construction company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days.
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Watsco saw a increase in short interest during the month of February. As of February 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,540,000 shares, an increase of 15.8% from the January 31st total of 1,330,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 177,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 8.7 days.
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Watsco trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "WSO."

Watsco's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (2.80%), DAVENPORT & Co LLC (1.96%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.56%), Blair William & Co. IL (1.51%), Epoch Investment Partners Inc. (1.43%) and Boston Financial Mangement LLC (0.91%). Company insiders that own Watsco stock include Barry S Logan, Bob L Moss and George Sape.
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WSO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Scharf Investments LLC, Advisors Asset Management Inc., Blair William & Co. IL, Quantum Capital Management LLC NJ, Prudential Financial Inc., Cambridge Trust Co., Northstar Investment Advisors LLC, and Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC. Company insiders that have sold Watsco company stock in the last year include Barry S Logan, Bob L Moss, and George Sape.
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WSO stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Nordea Investment Management AB, Boston Financial Mangement LLC, Bank of Nova Scotia, First Republic Investment Management Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Welch & Forbes LLC, and Pembroke Management LTD.
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Shares of WSO 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 WSO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $238.86.

Watsco has a market capitalization of $9.16 billion and generates $4.77 billion in revenue each year. The construction company earns $245.95 million in net income (profit) each year or $6.50 on an earnings per share basis. Watsco employs 5,800 workers across the globe.

The official website for Watsco is www.watsco.com.

Watsco's mailing address is 2665 SOUTH BAYSHORE DRIVE SUITE 901, MIAMI FL, 33133. The construction company can be reached via phone at 305-714-4100 or via email at [email protected]