Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

  • Market Cap: Mid Cap
  • Industry: Retailing
  • ISIN: US9699041011
USD
223.54
4.8 (2.19%)
  • Price Points
  • Score
  • Mojo Parameters
  • Total Return
  • News and Corporate Actions
  • Key factors
  • Shareholding
  • Financials
  • CompanyCV
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Comparison

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Quality
Valuation
Financial
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Why is Williams-Sonoma, Inc. ?

1
High Management Efficiency with a high ROE of 64.02%
2
Company has a low Debt to Equity ratio (avg) at times
3
Healthy long term growth as Operating profit has grown by an annual rate 20.39%
4
Flat results in Jul 25
  • OPERATING CASH FLOW(Y) Lowest at USD 1,287.43 MM
  • INVENTORY TURNOVER RATIO(HY) Lowest at 3.11 times
5
With ROE of 51.70%, it has a attractive valuation with a 8.98 Price to Book Value
  • The stock is trading at a fair value compared to its peers' average historical valuations
  • Over the past year, while the stock has generated a return of -0.68%, its profits have risen by 2.1%
6
High Institutional Holdings at 98.32%
  • These investors have better capability and resources to analyse fundamentals of companies than most retail investors.
7
Underperformed the market in the last 1 year
  • Even though the market (S&P 500) has generated returns of 14.11% in the last 1 year, the stock has hugely underperformed and has generate negative returns of -0.68% returns
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Verdict Report

How much should you hold?

  1. Overall Portfolio exposure to Williams-Sonoma, Inc. should be less than 10%
  2. Overall Portfolio exposure to Retailing should be less than 30%

(If sector exposure > 30%, please use optimiser tool to see which are the best stocks to hold in Retailing)

When to exit? - We will constantly monitor the company and suggest at the appropriate time to exit from the stock

Is Williams-Sonoma, Inc. for you?

High Risk, High Return

Absolute
Risk Adjusted
Volatility
Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
44.4%
0.65
41.98%
S&P 500
22.93%
0.70
20.15%
stock-recommendationQuality
stock-summaryManagement Risk
stock-summaryGrowth
stock-summaryCapital Structure
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Quality grade scale :

Below Average, Average, Good, Excellent

Quality key factors

Factor
Value
Sales Growth (5y)
2.85%
EBIT Growth (5y)
8.36%
EBIT to Interest (avg)
100.00
Debt to EBITDA (avg)
0
Net Debt to Equity (avg)
-0.38
Sales to Capital Employed (avg)
3.36
Tax Ratio
24.57%
Dividend Payout Ratio
29.87%
Pledged Shares
0
Institutional Holding
100.00%
ROCE (avg)
112.14%
ROE (avg)
64.02%
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Valuation Scorecard stock-summary

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Valuation grade scale :

Very Risky, Risky, Very Expensive, Expensive, Fair, Attractive, Very Attractive

Valuation Key Factors stock-summary

Factor
Value
P/E Ratio
19
Industry P/E
Price to Book Value
10.02
EV to EBIT
14.16
EV to EBITDA
12.17
EV to Capital Employed
15.63
EV to Sales
2.57
PEG Ratio
NA
Dividend Yield
1.55%
ROCE (Latest)
110.37%
ROE (Latest)
52.32%
stock-recommendationTechnicals

Technical key factors

Indicator
Weekly
Monthly
MACD
Bearish
Mildly Bearish
RSI
No Signal
No Signal
Bollinger Bands
Mildly Bearish
Bullish
Moving Averages
Mildly Bullish (Daily)
KST
Mildly Bearish
Mildly Bearish
Dow Theory
Mildly Bullish
No Trend
OBV
Mildly Bullish
Mildly Bearish
stock-recommendation Technical Indicator Scale: Bearish, Mildly Bearish, Sideways, Mildly Bullish, Bullish  Turned 
Technical Movement
stock-recommendationFinancial Trend

Financial Trend Scorecard stock-summary

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Financial Trend scale:

Very Negative, Negative, Flat, Positive, Very Positive, Outstanding

4What is working for the Company
DIVIDEND PER SHARE(HY)

Highest at USD 60.14

DIVIDEND PAYOUT RATIO(Y)

Highest at 39.38%

RAW MATERIAL COST(Y)

Fallen by 0.72% (YoY

-4What is not working for the Company
DEBT-EQUITY RATIO (HY)

Highest at 45.03 %

DEBTORS TURNOVER RATIO(HY)

Lowest at 60.14 times

OPERATING PROFIT MARGIN(Q)

Lowest at 19.28 %

PRE-TAX PROFIT(Q)

Lowest at USD 298.9 MM

Here's what is working for Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

Dividend per share
Highest at USD 60.14 and Grown
In each year in the last five years
MOJO Watch
Company is distributing higher dividend from profits generated

DPS (USD)

Dividend Payout Ratio
Highest at 39.38%
in the last five years
MOJO Watch
Company is distributing higher proportion of profits generated as dividend

DPR (%)

Raw Material Cost
Fallen by 0.72% (YoY)
MOJO Watch
The company's ability to pass on the cost of raw materials to customers has improved; this may lead to a rise in profit margin

Raw Material Cost as a percentage of Sales

Here's what is not working for Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

Operating Profit Margin
Lowest at 19.28 %
in the last five periods
MOJO Watch
Company's profit margin has deteriorated

Operating Profit to Sales

Pre-Tax Profit
Lowest at USD 298.9 MM
in the last five periods
MOJO Watch
Near term Pre-Tax Profit trend is negative

Pre-Tax Profit (USD MM)

Debt-Equity Ratio
Highest at 45.03 %
in the last five Semi-Annual periods
MOJO Watch
The company is borrowing more to fund its operations; it's liquidity situation may be stressed

Debt-Equity Ratio

Debtors Turnover Ratio
Lowest at 60.14 times
in the last five Semi-Annual periods
MOJO Watch
Company's pace of selling Debtors has slowed

Debtors Turnover Ratio