Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, June 18, with the stock price up by 3.09% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $74.74.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $72.50, falling within a range of $72.57 and $75.135. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.155 whereas the PE ratio was 13.43 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $81.50, and the low was $50.15. On the whole, WFC has fluctuated by -1.74% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Wells Fargo & Co currently standing at about $243.22 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Apr-11. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.60, with its dividend yield at 2.14%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that WFC’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 Hold 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 1.04, with the price of WFC currently trading nearly 0.52% and 4.13% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 53.53, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.31% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.45%. Furthermore, Wells Fargo & Co (WFC)’s beta value is 1.16, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.68.
A comparison of Wells Fargo & Co (WFC) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. WFC showed an intraday change of 3.09% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 30.21%%.
Data on historical trading for Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 16.55 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 17.75 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 3.26 billion shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.18% of Wells Fargo & Co’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 78.11% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 38.81 million shares as on 2025-05-30, resulting in a short ratio of 2.59. According to the data, the short interest in Wells Fargo & Co (WFC) stood at 120.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-05-30; the number of short shares registered in 2025-04-30 reached 39.82 million. The stock has risen by 6.41% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the WFC stock heading into the next quarter.
