W P Carey is a reit - diversified business based in the US. W P Carey shares (WPC) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $59.57 – a decrease of 0.47% over the previous week. W P Carey employs 197 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $1.6 billion.
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| Latest market close | $59.57 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $47.64 - $64.40 |
| 50-day moving average | $60.27 |
| 200-day moving average | $58.61 |
| Wall St. target price | $61.64 |
| PE ratio | 22.9115 |
| Dividend yield | $3.666 (5.88%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $2.60 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $59.92 from 2024-10-14
| 1 week (2024-10-09) | 0.12% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-09-16) | -6.32% |
| 3 months (2024-07-16) | 2.87% |
| 6 months (2024-04-16) | 12.38% |
| 1 year (2023-10-16) | 9.52% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-10-12) | N/A |
| 3 years (2021-10-15) | 76.99 |
| 5 years (2019-10-16) | 79.9765 |
Valuing W P Carey stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of W P Carey's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
W P Carey's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 23x. In other words, W P Carey shares trade at around 23x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
W P Carey's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $1.3 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a W P Carey's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $1.6 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 46.37% |
| Gross profit TTM | $1.4 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 2.69% |
| Return on equity TTM | 6.39% |
| Profit margin | 34.77% |
| Book value | $39.45 |
| Market Capitalization | $13 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 132.95% of net profits
Recently W P Carey has paid out, on average, around 132.95% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 5.88% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), W P Carey shareholders could enjoy a 5.88% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In W P Carey's case, that would currently equate to about $3.666 per share.
W P Carey's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
W P Carey's most recent dividend payout was on 14 October 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 29 September 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
W P Carey's shares were split on a 1021:1000 basis on 1 November 2023. So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1021 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your W P Carey shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 2.1% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for W P Carey shares which in turn could have impacted W P Carey's share price.
Over the last 12 months, W P Carey's shares have ranged in value from as little as $47.6398 up to $64.4034. 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 (NYSE average) beta is 1, while W P Carey's is 0.959. This would suggest that W P Carey's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
W. P. Carey ranks among the largest net lease REITs with a well-diversified portfolio of high-quality, operationally critical commercial real estate, which includes 1,424 net lease properties covering approximately 173 million square feet and a portfolio of 89 self-storage operating properties as of December 31, 2023. With offices in New York, London, Amsterdam and Dallas, the company remains focused on investing primarily in single-tenant, industrial, warehouse and retail properties located in the U. S. and Northern and Western Europe, under long-term net leases with built-in rent escalations. .
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