Worthington Steel Stock Price Prediction

WS Stock   30.38  1.02  3.25%   
At this time the relative strength momentum indicator of Worthington Steel's share price is below 20 . This entails that the stock is significantly oversold. The fundamental principle of the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is to quantify the velocity at which market participants are driving the price of a financial instrument upwards or downwards.

Oversold Vs Overbought

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Oversold
 
Overbought
The successful prediction of Worthington Steel's future price could yield a significant profit. Please, note that this module is not intended to be used solely to calculate an intrinsic value of Worthington Steel and does not consider all of the tangible or intangible factors available from Worthington Steel's fundamental data. We analyze noise-free headlines and recent hype associated with Worthington Steel, which may create opportunities for some arbitrage if properly timed. Below are the key fundamental drivers impacting Worthington Steel's stock price prediction:
Quarterly Earnings Growth
(0.53)
EPS Estimate Current Year
2.2
EPS Estimate Next Year
3.335
Wall Street Target Price
41
EPS Estimate Current Quarter
0.56
Using Worthington Steel hype-based prediction, you can estimate the value of Worthington Steel from the perspective of Worthington Steel response to recently generated media hype and the effects of current headlines on its competitors. We also analyze overall investor sentiment towards Worthington Steel using Worthington Steel's stock options and short interest. It helps to benchmark the overall future attitude of investors towards Worthington using crowd psychology based on the activity and movement of Worthington Steel's stock price.

Worthington Steel Implied Volatility

    
  0.98  
Worthington Steel's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Worthington Steel stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Worthington Steel's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Worthington Steel stock will not fluctuate a lot when Worthington Steel's options are near their expiration.
The fear of missing out, i.e., FOMO, can cause potential investors in Worthington Steel to buy its stock at a price that has no basis in reality. In that case, they are not buying Worthington because the equity is a good investment, but because they need to do something to avoid the feeling of missing out. On the other hand, investors will often sell stocks at prices well below their value during bear markets because they need to stop feeling the pain of losing money.

Worthington Steel after-hype prediction price

    
  USD 30.38  
There is no one specific way to measure market sentiment using hype analysis or a similar predictive technique. This prediction method should be used in combination with more fundamental and traditional techniques such as stock price forecasting, technical analysis, analysts consensus, earnings estimates, and various momentum models.

Prediction based on Rule 16 of the current Worthington contract

Based on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Worthington Steel will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0613% per day over the life of the 2025-01-17 option contract. With Worthington Steel trading at USD 30.38, that is roughly USD 0.0186 . If you think that the market is fully incorporating Worthington Steel's daily price movement you should consider acquiring Worthington Steel options at the current volatility level of 0.98%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
  
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Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Worthington Steel's price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.
Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
27.3434.3737.86
Details
2 Analysts
Consensus
LowTargetHigh
37.3141.0045.51
Details
Earnings
Estimates (0)
LowProjected EPSHigh
0.570.570.57
Details

Worthington Steel After-Hype Price Prediction Density Analysis

As far as predicting the price of Worthington Steel at your current risk attitude, this probability distribution graph shows the chance that the prediction will fall between or within a specific range. We use this chart to confirm that your returns on investing in Worthington Steel or, for that matter, your successful expectations of its future price, cannot be replicated consistently. Please note, a large amount of money has been lost over the years by many investors who confused the symmetrical distributions of Stock prices, such as prices of Worthington Steel, with the unreliable approximations that try to describe financial returns.
   Next price density   
       Expected price to next headline  

Worthington Steel Estimiated After-Hype Price Volatility

In the context of predicting Worthington Steel's stock value on the day after the next significant headline, we show statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios based on Worthington Steel's historical news coverage. Worthington Steel's after-hype downside and upside margins for the prediction period are 26.89 and 33.87, respectively. We have considered Worthington Steel's daily market price in relation to the headlines to evaluate this method's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that news-based prediction models outperform traditional linear, nonlinear models or artificial intelligence models to provide accurate predictions consistently.
Current Value
30.38
30.38
After-hype Price
33.87
Upside
Worthington Steel is very steady at this time. Analysis and calculation of next after-hype price of Worthington Steel is based on 3 months time horizon.

Worthington Steel Stock Price Prediction Analysis

Have you ever been surprised when a price of a Company such as Worthington Steel is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading Worthington Steel backward and forwards among themselves. Have you ever observed a lot of a particular company's price movement is driven by press releases or news about the company that has nothing to do with actual earnings? Usually, hype to individual companies acts as price momentum. If not enough favorable publicity is forthcoming, the Stock price eventually runs out of speed. So, the rule of thumb here is that as long as this news hype has nothing to do with immediate earnings, you should pay more attention to it. If you see this tendency with Worthington Steel, there might be something going there, and it might present an excellent short sale opportunity.
Expected ReturnPeriod VolatilityHype ElasticityRelated ElasticityNews DensityRelated DensityExpected Hype
  0.10 
3.49
  0.19 
  0.01 
7 Events / Month
5 Events / Month
In about 7 days
Latest traded priceExpected after-news pricePotential return on next major newsAverage after-hype volatility
30.38
30.38
0.00 
186.63  
Notes

Worthington Steel Hype Timeline

As of January 6, 2025 Worthington Steel is listed for 30.38. The entity has historical hype elasticity of -0.19, and average elasticity to hype of competition of -0.01. Worthington is projected not to react to the next headline, with the price staying at about the same level, and average media hype impact volatility is about 186.63%. The immediate return on the next news is projected to be very small, whereas the daily expected return is at this time at -0.1%. %. The volatility of related hype on Worthington Steel is about 2938.95%, with the expected price after the next announcement by competition of 30.37. About 36.0% of the company outstanding shares are owned by insiders. The company has Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.49. Historically many companies with similar price-to-book (P/B) ratio do better than the market in the long run. Worthington Steel last dividend was issued on the 13th of December 2024. Allowing for the 90-day total investment horizon the next projected press release will be in about 7 days.
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Worthington Steel Related Hype Analysis

Having access to credible news sources related to Worthington Steel's direct competition is more important than ever and may enhance your ability to predict Worthington Steel's future price movements. Getting to know how Worthington Steel's peers react to changing market sentiment, related social signals, and mainstream news is a great way to find investing opportunities and time the market. The summary table below summarizes the essential lagging indicators that can help you analyze how Worthington Steel may potentially react to the hype associated with one of its peers.
Hype
Elasticity
News
Density
Semi
Deviation
Information
Ratio
Potential
Upside
Value
At Risk
Maximum
Drawdown
DLXDeluxe(0.28)11 per month 1.68  0.12  3.26 (2.60) 15.33 
BWOFYBW Offshore Limited 0.00 0 per month 0.00  0.09  0.91  0.00  15.26 
MCHXMarchex(0.13)6 per month 2.81  0.03  7.39 (4.35) 24.10 
JUTOYJutal Offshore Oil 0.00 0 per month 0.00  0.1  0.00  0.00  9.24 
XNETXunlei Ltd Adr(0.1)6 per month 4.03  0.05  7.50 (6.57) 30.75 
EVCEntravision Communications(0.05)6 per month 2.49  0.1  5.69 (3.98) 15.05 
IASIntegral Ad Science(0.23)4 per month 2.94  0.01  3.26 (1.91) 23.54 
COE51Talk Online Education(0.16)8 per month 3.20  0.09  9.36 (4.95) 28.89 

Worthington Steel Additional Predictive Modules

Most predictive techniques to examine Worthington price help traders to determine how to time the market. We provide a combination of tools to recognize potential entry and exit points for Worthington using various technical indicators. When you analyze Worthington charts, please remember that the event formation may indicate an entry point for a short seller, and look at other indicators across different periods to confirm that a breakdown or reversion is likely to occur.

About Worthington Steel Predictive Indicators

The successful prediction of Worthington Steel stock price could yield a significant profit to investors. But is it possible? The efficient-market hypothesis suggests that all published stock prices of traded companies, such as Worthington Steel, already reflect all publicly available information. This academic statement is a fundamental principle of many financial and investing theories used today. However, the typical investor usually disagrees with a 'textbook' version of this hypothesis and continually tries to find mispriced stocks to increase returns. We use internally-developed statistical techniques to arrive at the intrinsic value of Worthington Steel based on analysis of Worthington Steel hews, social hype, general headline patterns, and widely used predictive technical indicators.
We also calculate exposure to Worthington Steel's market risk, different technical and fundamental indicators, relevant financial multiples and ratios, and then comparing them to Worthington Steel's related companies.
 2024 2025 (projected)
PTB Ratio1.91.62
Dividend Yield0.0043720.003886

Story Coverage note for Worthington Steel

The number of cover stories for Worthington Steel depends on current market conditions and Worthington Steel's risk-adjusted performance over time. The coverage that generates the most noise at a given time depends on the prevailing investment theme that Worthington Steel is classified under. However, while its typical story may have numerous social followers, the rapid visibility can also attract short-sellers, who usually are skeptical about Worthington Steel's long-term prospects. So, having above-average coverage will typically attract above-average short interest, leading to significant price volatility.

Worthington Steel Short Properties

Worthington Steel's future price predictability will typically decrease when Worthington Steel's long traders begin to feel the short-sellers pressure to drive the price lower. The predictive aspect of Worthington Steel often depends not only on the future outlook of the potential Worthington Steel's investors but also on the ongoing dynamics between investors with different trading styles. Because the market risk indicators may have small false signals, it is better to identify suitable times to hedge a portfolio using different long/short signals. Worthington Steel's indicators that are reflective of the short sentiment are summarized in the table below.
Common Stock Shares Outstanding49.3 M
Cash And Short Term Investments40.2 M

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