Waystar Holding Corp (NASDAQ:WAY) price on current trading day, rose 5.19% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $39.10.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $37.17, moving within a range at $35.94 and $39.49. Turning to its 52-week performance, $48.11 and $20.26 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, WAY moved 5.85% over the past month.
Waystar Holding Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $6.73 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Apr-29.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 253.66M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 250.1M and 257.46M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 8.15% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 1.02B, representing a 7.64% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that WAY is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
8 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 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 8 recommend WAY as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 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.
WAY’s current price about 6.78% and 2.61% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 59.42, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.50% and 4.71% in the 30-day chart. Further, Waystar Holding Corp (WAY) has a beta value of 0, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.83. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $45, forecast between a low of $45 and high of $45. Looking at the price targets, the low is -15.09% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -15.09%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -15.09% jump to $45 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Waystar Holding Corp (NASDAQ:WAY), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.29 over the past 10 days and 2.16 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 172.11 million shares.
The 44.23% of Waystar Holding Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 45.88% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 4.01 million on 2025-04-15, giving us a short ratio of 2.2. The data shows that as of 2025-04-15 short interest in Waystar Holding Corp (WAY) stood at 690.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 4.43 million registered in 2025-03-14. Current price change has pushed the stock 6.54% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the WAY stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
