Wayfair Inc (W) Stock Behavior Isn’t Quite As Predictable As You Think

Wayfair Inc (NYSE:W) price on Wednesday, April 30, fall -3.27% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $30.16.

A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $31.18, moving within a range at $28.79 and $30.48. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 3.73. Turning to its 52-week performance, $76.18 and $20.41 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, W moved -5.84% over the past month.

Wayfair Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $3.83 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-19.

Analysts have a consensus estimate of 2.71B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 2.65B and 2.73B respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -0.78% 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 11.85B, representing a 0.01% 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 W is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.

30 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 10 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 19 recommend W as a Buy and 1 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.

W’s current price about 8.21% and -8.03% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 50.33, while 7-day volatility ratio is 5.14% and 12.33% in the 30-day chart. Further, Wayfair Inc (W) has a beta value of 2.93, and an average true range (ATR) of 2.75. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $50, forecast between a low of $25 and high of $60. Looking at the price targets, the low is 17.11% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -98.94%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -65.78% jump to $50 which is the analysts’ median price.

If we refocus on Wayfair Inc (NYSE:W), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 5.94 over the past 10 days and 5.69 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 100.76 million shares.

The 26.94% of Wayfair Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 83.66% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 23.01 million on 2025-04-15, giving us a short ratio of 2.89. The data shows that as of 2025-04-15 short interest in Wayfair Inc (W) stood at 3140.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 17.34 million registered in 2025-03-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -31.95% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the W stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.

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