W. P. Carey Inc (NYSE:WPC) shares, rose in value on Friday, March 28, with the stock price up by 0.46% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $62.70.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $62.41, falling within a range of $62.074 and $62.81. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.974 whereas the PE ratio was 29.97 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $66.10, and the low was $52.91. On the whole, WPC has fluctuated by -2.35% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of W. P. Carey Inc currently standing at about $13.72 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-10. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 2.62, with its dividend yield at 4.19%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 1.67B, with a low estimate of 405M and a high estimate of 418.58M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 412.99M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that WPC’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% 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 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 3.00, with the price of WPC currently trading nearly -0.25% and 4.54% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 56.41, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.81% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.04%. Furthermore, W. P. Carey Inc (WPC)’s beta value is 0.86, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.22.
A comparison of W. P. Carey Inc (WPC) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. WPC showed an intraday change of 0.46% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 13.34%%.
Data on historical trading for W. P. Carey Inc (NYSE:WPC) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.54 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.26 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 218.85 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 1.41% of W. P. Carey Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 69.29% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 3.71 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 2.49. According to the data, the short interest in W. P. Carey Inc (WPC) stood at 233.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 3.39 million. The stock has risen by 15.09% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the WPC stock heading into the next quarter.
