Willis Towers Watson is an insurance brokers business based in the US. Willis Towers Watson shares (WTW) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Willis Towers Watson employs 48,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $9.6 billion.
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| Latest market close | $277.60 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $192.57 - $277.04 |
| 50-day moving average | $257.91 |
| 200-day moving average | $251.70 |
| Wall St. target price | $303.13 |
| PE ratio | 26.6057 |
| Dividend yield | $3.44 (1.34%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $9.89 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $277.6 from 2024-07-25
| 1 week (2024-07-19) | 5.50% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-06-27) | 5.49% |
| 3 months (2024-04-26) | 10.62% |
| 6 months (2024-01-26) | 11.27% |
| 1 year (2023-07-27) | 30.79% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-07-27) | 36.62% |
| 3 years (2021-07-27) | 801.30% |
| 5 years (2019-07-26) | 1,157.82% |
Valuing Willis Towers Watson stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Willis Towers Watson's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Willis Towers Watson's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 27x. In other words, Willis Towers Watson shares trade at around 27x recent earnings.
That's comparable to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29).
Willis Towers Watson's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.1207. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Willis Towers Watson's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Willis Towers Watson's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $2.5 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Willis Towers Watson's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $9.6 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 19.01% |
| Gross profit TTM | $4.1 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 4.02% |
| Return on equity TTM | 10.66% |
| Profit margin | 10.88% |
| Book value | $92.84 |
| Market Capitalization | $26.9 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 22.9% of net profits
Recently Willis Towers Watson has paid out, on average, around 22.9% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.34% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Willis Towers Watson shareholders could enjoy a 1.34% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Willis Towers Watson's case, that would currently equate to about $3.44 per share.
While Willis Towers Watson's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Willis Towers Watson is investing more in its future growth.
Willis Towers Watson's most recent dividend payout was on 14 July 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 27 June 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Willis Towers Watson's shares were split on a 3775:10000 basis on 4 January 2016. So if you had owned 10000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3775 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Willis Towers Watson shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 164.9% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Willis Towers Watson shares which in turn could have impacted Willis Towers Watson's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Willis Towers Watson's shares have ranged in value from as little as $192.5658 up to $277.0361. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Willis Towers Watson's is 0.737. This would suggest that Willis Towers Watson's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company operates as an advisory, broking, and solutions company worldwide. It operates through two segments: Health, Wealth & Career and Risk & Broking. The company offers strategy and design consulting, plan management service and support, broking and administration services for health, wellbeing, and other group benefit program, including medical, dental, disability, life, voluntary benefits and other coverages; actuarial support, plan design, and administrative services for pension and retirement savings plans; retirement consulting services and solutions; and integrated solutions that consists of investment discretionary management, pension administration, core actuarial, and communication and change management assistance services. It also provides advice, data, software, and products to address clients' total rewards and talent issues; and risk advice, insurance brokerage, and consulting services in the areas of property and casualty, affinity, risk and analytics, aerospace, construction, global markets direct & facultative, financial, executive and professional risks, financial solutions, crisis management, surety, marine, and natural resources. In addition, the company offers integrated solutions that consists of investment discretionary management, pension administration, core actuarial, and communication and change management assistance services; and software and technology, risk and capital management, products and product pricing, financial and regulatory reporting, financial and capital modeling, M&A, outsourcing, and business management services. The company was formerly known as Willis Group Holdings Public Limited Company and changed its name to Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company in January 2016. Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company was founded in 1828 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.
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