World Wrestling Entertainment Stock Forecast, Price & News

World Wrestling Entertainment's stock was trading at $38.72 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, WWE stock has increased by 35.8% and is now trading at $52.59.
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15 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for World Wrestling Entertainment in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" World Wrestling Entertainment stock.
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6,978 employees have rated World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Larry J. Merlo on Glassdoor.com. Larry J. Merlo has an approval rating of 37% among World Wrestling Entertainment's employees. This puts Larry J. Merlo in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

World Wrestling Entertainment is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 4th 2021.
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World Wrestling Entertainment will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 4th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:WWE) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 29th. The company reported $0.57 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.35 by $0.22. The firm earned $221.60 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $221.59 million. World Wrestling Entertainment had a net margin of 14.18% and a return on equity of 48.59%. World Wrestling Entertainment's quarterly revenue was up 18.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.06 earnings per share.
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World Wrestling Entertainment announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, October 23rd. Investors of record on Tuesday, December 15th will be given a dividend of $0.12 per share on Monday, December 28th. This represents a $0.48 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.91%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, December 14th.
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World Wrestling Entertainment pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.93%. The dividend payout ratio of World Wrestling Entertainment is 56.47%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, World Wrestling Entertainment will have a dividend payout ratio of 25.81% next year. This indicates that World Wrestling Entertainment will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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15 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for World Wrestling Entertainment's stock. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $76.00. On average, they expect World Wrestling Entertainment's stock price to reach $51.13 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.8%.
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World Wrestling Entertainment saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totaling 7,160,000 shares, an increase of 18.9% from the December 15th total of 6,020,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 782,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 9.2 days. Currently, 15.5% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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Some companies that are related to World Wrestling Entertainment include The Walt Disney (DIS), Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), News (NWSA), Madison Square Garden (MSG), Cinemark (CNK) and Reading International (RDI).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other World Wrestling Entertainment investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Netflix (NFLX), The Walt Disney (DIS), Tesla (TSLA), salesforce.com (CRM), PayPal (PYPL), Square (SQ), Micron Technology (MU) and The Boeing (BA).

World Wrestling Entertainment trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "WWE."

World Wrestling Entertainment's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.02%), Exchange Traded Concepts LLC (0.01%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.01%), Brookstone Capital Management (0.01%) and Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. (0.01%). Company insiders that own World Wrestling Entertainment stock include Bradley Blum, George A Barrios, Kevin Dunn, Michelle D Wilson, Patricia A Gottesman, Paul Levesque, Stephanie Levesque and Vincent K Mcmahon.
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WWE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue. Company insiders that have sold World Wrestling Entertainment company stock in the last year include Bradley Blum, Kevin Dunn, Patricia A Gottesman, Paul Levesque, and Stephanie Levesque.
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WWE stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pacer Advisors Inc., Brookstone Capital Management, Crossmark Global Holdings Inc., and Exchange Traded Concepts LLC.
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Shares of WWE 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.

One share of WWE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $52.59.

World Wrestling Entertainment has a market capitalization of $4.09 billion and generates $960.40 million in revenue each year. The company earns $77.06 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.85 on an earnings per share basis. World Wrestling Entertainment employs 960 workers across the globe.

The official website for World Wrestling Entertainment is corporate.wwe.com.

World Wrestling Entertainment's mailing address is 1241 E MAIN ST, STAMFORD CT, 06902. The company can be reached via phone at 203-352-8600 or via email at [email protected]