Watts Water Technologies Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:WTS)

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Watts Water Technologies in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" WTS shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in WTS, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Watts Water Technologies' stock. Their WTS share price targets range from $165.00 to $189.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $178.20 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 9.3%.
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Watts Water Technologies' stock was trading at $146.23 at the beginning of the year. Since then, WTS shares have increased by 34.4% and is now trading at $196.47.
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Watts Water Technologies saw a increase in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 597,500 shares, an increase of 30.2% from the October 15th total of 459,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 118,500 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.0 days. Currently, 2.2% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 14th 2024.
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Watts Water Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:WTS) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November, 1st. The technology company reported $2.04 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.83 by $0.21. The technology company had revenue of $504.30 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $497.47 million. Watts Water Technologies had a net margin of 13.68% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 19.22%. The firm's revenue was up 3.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $1.79 EPS.

Watts Water Technologies announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, October 30th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.36 per share on Friday, December 15th. This represents a $1.44 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.73%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 30th.
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Watts Water Technologies (NYSE:WTS) pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.73%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 17.56%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, WTS will have a dividend payout ratio of 17.33% 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 Watts Water Technologies (NYSE:WTS) stock in their portfolio include iShares MSCI Water Management Multisector ETF (IWTR), First Trust Water ETF (FIW), Global X Clean Water ETF (AQWA), iShares Environmental Infrastructure and Industrials ETF (EFRA), Ecofin Global Water ESG Fund (EBLU), Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF (CGW), Horizon Kinetics Energy and Remediation ETF (NVIR) and Invesco Water Resources ETF (PHO).

48 employees have rated Watts Water Technologies Chief Executive Officer Robert J. Pagano, Jr. on Glassdoor.com. Robert J. Pagano, Jr. has an approval rating of 66% among the company's employees. 53.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Watts Water Technologies to a friend.

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Watts Water Technologies' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC (6.20%), Impax Asset Management Group plc (5.43%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.78%), Gamco Investors INC. ET AL (1.62%), Invesco Ltd. (1.17%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.11%). Insiders that own company stock include Elie Melhem, Joseph T Noonan, Kenneth Robert Lepage, Kevin Hettrich, Munish Nanda, Robert J Pagano Jr, Shashank Patel and Timothy P Horne.
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