Is Western Asset stock a buy?
What Is The Conclusion?
Right now our advanced algorithms say:
Do the analyst corps agree?
Interesting Questions and Easy Answers!
Yes, Western Asset pays dividends. Last time was Friday 30th of August 2024 where the investors holding the stock on Friday 23rd of August 2024 were paid $0.05 per share. Over the last 252 times between 2003 and 2024, Western Asset has paid $13.84125 with an average of $0.05 per share.
Sorry, we do not have any analyst data for this ticker
We cannot find data for Western Asset 10 years ago, but if you had invested on Monday 9th of September 2019 when the price was $11.63, you would have made a loss of $-3.39 per share or -29.15%
No, the average daily trading liquidity for Western Asset is $30 280 thousand. Trading in stocks with this little trading liquidity is very dangerous, and you can get into a situation where it will be hard to trade your stocks. In addition, these types of stocks usually have very high volatility.
Western Asset has much of the business financed by loans. This puts the company at high risk in periods of high inflation where borrowing costs usually go up. With a low cash flow to debt ratio of 0.07, the company's ability to pay off the debt is limited. Western Asset has a very good net profit margin of 245.41% and should have very high tolerances against inflation.
We have calculated the inflation risk for Western Asset to be medium [0.6 of 1]
US inflation for July 2024 was 0.15%. Over the last 12 months, the US inflation is 2.92%. The 10-year treasury yield that indicates the future interest level is currently 3.72 and is down -0.95 over the last 30 days.