Warner Bros. Discovery Inc (NASDAQ:WBD) price on Wednesday, May 21, fall -3.03% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $8.95.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $9.23, moving within a range at $8.88 and $9.18. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.465. Turning to its 52-week performance, $12.70 and $6.64 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, WBD moved 12.58% over the past month.
Warner Bros. Discovery Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $22.14 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-07.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that WBD is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 75% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
20 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 6 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 13 recommend WBD as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 1 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
WBD’s current price about 1.25% and -2.97% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 49.82, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.28% and 4.37% in the 30-day chart. Further, Warner Bros. Discovery Inc (WBD) has a beta value of 1.48, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.44. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $12.5, forecast between a low of $12 and high of $13. Looking at the price targets, the low is -34.08% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -45.25%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -39.66% jump to $12.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Warner Bros. Discovery Inc (NASDAQ:WBD), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 39.07 over the past 10 days and 43.95 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 2.47 billion shares.
The 9.88% of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 68.67% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 90.81 million on 2025-04-30, giving us a short ratio of 2.02. The data shows that as of 2025-04-30 short interest in Warner Bros. Discovery Inc (WBD) stood at 413.00002000000006 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 86.22 million registered in 2025-03-31. Current price change has pushed the stock -15.33% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the WBD stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
