After Hours
After-hours and pre-market trading may carry slightly higher risks than regular market hours. As issuers often announce important financial information outside regular trading hours, extended-hours trading may result in wider spreads for a particular security. That is because extended-hours trading may result in lower liquidity and higher volatility.
Stocks Info
WEX belongs to the Technology sector of the NYSE while operating in the Software – Infrastructure industry. The current market capitalization of WEX Inc is $7.07B. A total of 0.54 million shares were traded on the day, compared to an average of 421.75K shares.
In the most recent transaction, Deshaies Robert Joseph sold 175 shares of WEX for 189.44 per share on Nov 29 ’24. After the transaction, the COO, Benefits now owns 7,582 company shares. In a previous transaction on Nov 29 ’24, Deshaies Robert Joseph bought 175 shares at 189.44 per share.
Among the insiders who sold shares, Narula Jagtar disposed of 508 shares on Sep 13 ’24 at a per-share price of $200.00. This resulted in the Chief Financial Officer holding 7,120 shares of WEX after the transaction. In another insider transaction, Narula Jagtar bought 508 shares at $199.92 per share on Sep 13 ’24.
While price targets are rarely accurate, they tend to exert some kind of influence from time to time and are often taken into account by investors. In terms of 52-week highs and lows, WEX has a high of $244.04 and a low of $165.51.
As of this writing, WEX has an earnings estimate of $3.56 per share for the current quarter. EPS was calculated based on a consensus of 14.0 estimates, with a high estimate of $3.61 per share and a lower estimate of $3.49.
Balance Sheet Annually/Quarterly
An organization’s balance sheet depicts the assets and liabilities it has, as well as the amount of equity invested. Investors can measure a company’s prospects by calculating its financial ratios using this information. WEX’s latest balance sheet shows that the firm has $1.54B in Cash & Short Term Investments as of fiscal 2021. There were $2.85B in debt and $4.40B in liabilities at the time. Its Book Value Per Share was $42.15, while its Total Shareholder’s Equity was $2.09B.
Analysts Opinion
There is a slight risk associated with trading before and after the market open. Due to lower liquidity and higher volatility, extended-hours trading may result in wider spreads on particular security due to the release of critical financial information after regular trading hours. Currently, 0 analysts are providing their opinions on the stock. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being Sell and 5 being Buy, the average analyst rating for WEX is Buy with a score of 3.56.