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 29th of November 2024 where the investors holding the stock on Thursday 21st of November 2024 were paid $0.0605 per share. Over the last 249 times between 2004 and 2024, Western Asset has paid $12.585 with an average of $0.05 per share.
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We cannot find data for Western Asset 10 years ago, but if you had invested on Monday 21st of October 2019 when the price was $11.05, you would have made a loss of $-2.24 per share or -20.27%
Yes, the average daily trading liquidity for Western Asset is $294 859 thousand. You should therefore be able to get in and out of your positions relatively fast.
Western Asset has a normal ratio of the business financed by loans. This puts the company at some risk in periods of high inflation where borrowing costs usually go up. With a normal cash flow to debt ratio of 0.11, the company's ability to pay off the debt is normal. Western Asset has a very good net profit margin of 36.36% and should have very high tolerances against inflation.
We have calculated the inflation risk for Western Asset to be low [0.3 of 1]
US inflation for August 2024 was 0.19%. Over the last 12 months, the US inflation is 2.59%. The 10-year treasury yield that indicates the future interest level is currently 4.09 and is down -0.37 over the last 30 days.