WBS Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

For dividend yielding stocks, the Dividend Discount Model (DDM) is a common valuation tool; it attempts to extrapolate a fair share price based primarily on the dividend the stock provides relative to a number of other quantiative aspects of its business. Regarding Webster Financial Corp, the DDM model, as implemented by StockNews, implies a negative return of 41.79% relative to its current price. To help understand and contextualize the model's evaluation of WBS, investors may wish to consider are:

• Given its market cap of around 3 billion US dollars, this puts the stock in the mid-sized market cap class, and its dividend yield is greater than 76.74% of dividend yielding stocks in the same market cap class.
• Beta tells us how volatile a stock's price is relative to the broader equity index; as for WBS, approximately 5.58% of US-listed dividend issuers had a higher beta, and thus may have greater price volatility.

WBS Dividends vs. Peers