WSBC Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

A technique commonly used by dividend investors to value dividend-issuing stocks is the Dividend Discount Model (DDM), which seeks to determine a fair share price based on the dividend provided by the company relative to a number of other company-specific factors. In the case of WSBC, the DDM model generated by StockNews estimates a return of positive 13.68% in comparison to its current price. To help understand and contextualize the model's evaluation of WSBC, investors may wish to consider are:

• Compared to other US stocks that pay a dividend, Wesbanco Inc produces a dividend yield 4.27% -- which falls in the top 20.96%.
• WSBC's market cap of approximately $2 billion makes it a mid-sized market cap company; out of dividend issuers in this group, the investment opportunity based on the difference between its current share price and its forecasted DDM value is greater than 77.31% of them.
• Based on dividend growth rate, WSBC boasts a higher growth rate in terms of its annual cash distributed to its owners than 85.53% of the dividend issuers in our set.

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