What Should You know About Walgreens Before Investing?

By Blake Campbell • Monday, October 10 16:34 • Permanent Link

Walgreens marked a 4.3% change today, compared to -0.8% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $31.84? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. operates as a pharmacy-led health and beauty retail company.
Walgreens belongs to the Healthcare sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 13.21 and an average price to book (P/B) of 4.07
The company's P/B ratio is 1.0
Walgreens has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 5.4 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (Eps) of $5.9 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is 7.0 is, based on its 12 month price to earnings (Eps) is $5.9
WBA has a Price to Earnings Growth ratio of 6.92, which shows the company is overvalued when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.
Over the last four years, Walgreens Boots Alliance, has averaged free cash flows of $4,768,500,000.00, which on average grew -12.1%
WBA's gross profit margins have averaged 22.4 % over the last four years and during this time they had a growth rate of -3.2 % and a coefficient of variability of 5.6 %.
Walgreens has moved -35.6% over the last year compared to -16.5% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of -19.1%
WBA has an average analyst rating of hold and is -20.04% away from its mean target price of $39.82 per share

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