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

18 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Williams-Sonoma in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 10 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" WSM shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in WSM, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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18 analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Williams-Sonoma's shares. Their WSM share price targets range from $144.00 to $340.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $248.06 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 11.3%.
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Williams-Sonoma's stock was trading at $201.78 at the start of the year. Since then, WSM shares have increased by 38.6% and is now trading at $279.69.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 28th 2024.
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Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (NYSE:WSM) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, March, 13th. The specialty retailer reported $5.44 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $5.06 by $0.38. The specialty retailer had revenue of $2.28 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.22 billion. Williams-Sonoma had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 55.15% and a net margin of 12.25%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 7.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $5.50 earnings per share.

Williams-Sonoma declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, March 13th. Shareholders of record on Friday, April 19th will be paid a dividend of $1.13 per share on Friday, May 24th. This represents a $4.52 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.62%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 18th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.90.
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Williams-Sonoma (NYSE:WSM) pays an annual dividend of $3.60 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.28%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 19 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 24.71%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, WSM will have a dividend payout ratio of 22.37% 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 SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB), Global X E-Commerce ETF (EBIZ), ProShares Online Retail ETF (ONLN), Invesco S&P MidCap Quality ETF (XMHQ), ALPS O'Shares U.S. Small-Cap Quality Dividend ETF (OUSM), ProShares Long Online/Short Stores ETF (CLIX), Pacer Lunt MidCap Multi-Factor Alternator ETF (PAMC) and ProShares S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats ETF (REGL).

Williams-Sonoma updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Wednesday, March, 13th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $7.5 billion-$8.0 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $7.6 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 number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.20%), Congress Asset Management Co. MA (0.09%), West Coast Financial LLC (0.08%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.06%), Coston McIsaac & Partners (0.06%) and Radnor Capital Management LLC (0.04%). 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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