W.R. Berkley Corp (NYSE:WRB) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 8.33% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $71.80.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $66.28, falling within a range of $70.65 and $76.38. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.641 whereas the PE ratio is 16.47 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $66.54, and the low was $49.78. On the whole, WRB has fluctuated by 15.59% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of W.R. Berkley Corp currently standing at about $27.23 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Jan-26. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.36, with its dividend yield at 0.50%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that WRB’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.14, with the price of WRB currently trading nearly 12.66% and 16.37% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 81.54, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.61% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.80%. Furthermore, W.R. Berkley Corp (WRB)’s beta value is 0.46, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.77.
A comparison of W.R. Berkley Corp (WRB) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. WRB showed an intraday change of 8.33% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 26.82%%.
Data on historical trading for W.R. Berkley Corp (NYSE:WRB) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.69 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.77 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 380.07 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 23.70% of W.R. Berkley Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 69.18% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 8.08 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 5.28. According to the data, the short interest in W.R. Berkley Corp (WRB) stood at 271.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 7.17 million. The stock has risen by 22.70% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the WRB stock heading into the next quarter.
