Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (WSM) Stock

About Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (WSM) functions as a specialized, multi-channel retailer offering a diverse array of products for the home. Its flagship Williams Sonoma brand is renowned for cooking, dining, and entertaining essentials, such as cookware, culinary tools, small appliances, flatware, dinnerware, barware, outdoor furnishings, and an extensive collection of cookbooks. This brand also provides home furnishings and decorative accents. The popular Pottery Barn brand features furniture, bedding, lighting, rugs, table linens, and decorative items. Targeting younger demographics, Pottery Barn Kids offers children's accessories, while Pottery Barn Teen caters to adolescents with products ranging from organic bedding to versatile, multi-purpose furniture. Furthermore, West Elm contributes a selection of stylish home decor to the company's portfolio. Complementing these are Rejuvenation, specializing in historically inspired, made-to-order lighting, hardware, furniture, and home accents, and Mark and Graham, which provides personalized accessories for women and men, travel goods, entertaining and bar essentials, home decor, and seasonal merchandise. The company also maintains an innovative 3-D imaging and augmented reality platform for the broader home furnishings and decor sector. Williams-Sonoma distributes its products through a robust omni-channel strategy, encompassing e-commerce platforms, direct-mail catalogs, and physical retail locations. The company boasts a significant retail footprint with 544 company-owned stores, including 502 across 41 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico, alongside 20 in Canada, 19 in Australia, and 3 in the United Kingdom. An additional 139 franchised stores operate internationally, and the company extends its reach through e-commerce websites in countries like those in the Middle East, the Philippines, Mexico, South Korea, and India. Established in 1956, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is led by CEO Laura J. Alber, employs 19,800 people, headquartered in San Francisco, US, publicly traded since 1983.

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (WSM) stock trades at $251.81 with a market capitalization of $29.65B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 19.40, price-to-book of 9.69, price-to-sales of 2.59. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $154.11 and $251.81, and currently trades at its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.60%.

On profitability, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 52.23% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 67.98%, an operating margin of 18.14%, a net profit margin of 13.94%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. reported annual revenue of $7.8B, net profit of $1.1B, revenue has compounded at 2.9% a year over the last five years, profit at 9.8% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70, a current ratio of 1.39, total assets of $5.4B, $1.0B in cash and equivalents.

WSM has an average daily trading volume of 1,158,809 shares, a beta of 1.51 (more volatile than the overall market).

Official website: www.williams-sonomainc.com