Momentum Stock Watch: Williams-Sonoma (WSM)

Company Profile:

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. operates as an omni-channel specialty retailer of various products for home. It offers cooking, dining, and entertaining products, such as cookware, tools, electrics, cutlery, tabletop and bar, outdoor, furniture, and a library of cookbooks under the Williams Sonoma brand, as well as home furnishings and decorative accessories under the Williams Sonoma Home brand; and furniture, bedding, bathroom accessories, rugs, curtains, lighting, tabletop, outdoor, and decorative accessories under the Pottery Barn brand. Williams-Sonoma, Inc. was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Recent News:

On February 3, 2021, the company announced that it has been included in the 2021 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI). The GEI brings transparency to gender-related practices and policies at publicly listed companies.

On December 18, 2020, the Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.53 per common share. The dividend is payable on February 26, 2021 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on January 22, 2021.

For the third fiscal quarter ended November 1, 2020, the company reported taht net revenue growth of 22.4% to $1.765 billion, driven by acceleration across all brands.

Fundamental Analysis:

Ninestocks analyzes several different financial aspects: Growth, Profitability, solvency and efficiency.

Growth – Measures the growth of both the company’s income statement and cash flow.

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Profitability – Measures the historical price movement of the stock.

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Solvency – Measures the solvency of the company based on several ratios.

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Efficiency – Measures the strength and historic growth of a company’s return on invested capital.

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Conclusion:

WSM’s strengths can be seen in its better profitability, better solvency and better efficiency compared with its peers. Its reveune has increased over recently several years. Technical indicators signal the bullish signs, as there is a bullish crossover in Stochastic oscillator, the MACD is trying to cross back up and the RSI stands at 57.99 with positive bias. We rate Williams-Sonoma (WSM) a STRONG BUY.