Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp (NYSE:WAB) shares, rose in value on Friday, July 11, with the stock price down by -0.04% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $213.66.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $213.75, falling within a range of $211.8 and $213.9. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.128 whereas the PE ratio was 33.49 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $216.10, and the low was $147.66. On the whole, WAB has fluctuated by 4.47% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp currently standing at about $36.56 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Apr-23. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.90, with its dividend yield at 0.42%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that WAB’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 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.57, with the price of WAB currently trading nearly 3.00% and 5.37% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 67.15, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.63% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.59%. Furthermore, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp (WAB)’s beta value is 1.12.
A comparison of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp (WAB) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. WAB showed an intraday change of -0.04% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 12.70%%.
Data on historical trading for Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp (NYSE:WAB) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.96 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 897.77K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 171.10 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 1.11% of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 93.83% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 2.08 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 2.53. According to the data, the short interest in Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp (WAB) stood at 139.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 2.02 million. The stock has risen by 35.88% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the WAB stock heading into the next quarter.
