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WCC·WESCO International, Inc.

$290.82
+4.35 (+1.52%)
High
$300.01
Open
$300.01
Market Cap
14.42B
52W High
$388.64
Low
$287.00
P. Close
$290.82
P/E
20.62
52W Low
$240.55
Fwd P/E
13.16
DailyIQ Est.
$436.76
Inst. Own.
77.6%
Short Interest
2.50%
Days to Cover
1.8
Div. Yield
0.68%
Next Ex-Div
~Dec 11
NewEarnings release, scored · filed Oct 29, 2026tone -11.2 vs prior release · 79 lines scoredSee the breakdown
Technical Score (1D)
86
BULLISH
News Sentiment
72
BULLISH
On Nov 3, Zacks upgraded Wesco International (WCC) to a Strong Buy, citing an upward trend in earnings estimates as the main reason for the rating change. The upgrade reflects a consensus view that WCC’s future earnings potential has improved, which analysts believe will positively influence the stock. On Nov 2, WESCO International announced that it would lift its 2026 full‑year sales guidance to 14 %–15 % reported growth after reporting third‑quarter sales of $7.226 billion and net income of $267.8 million. The company highlighted a sharp rise in earnings per share from continuing operations for both the quarter and year‑to‑date, driven by stronger international market performance. Management noted that the higher sales forecast supports a more optimistic view of infrastructure demand and could reshape the investment narrative around the company. On the same day, another report noted that WCC’s raised 2026 earnings guidance and updated fourth‑quarter sales outlook were supported by record third‑quarter earnings and stronger infrastructure and data center demand, reinforcing the company’s growth narrative and long‑term shareholder return.
LOW TARGET
$283 -2.7%
1 analysts
MEAN TARGET
$418 +43.8%
9 analysts
HIGH TARGET
$450 +54.7%
7 analysts
PRICE RANGE
$283.00 - $450.00
SB / B / H / S / SS
7/6/2/1/1
DAILYIQ EST.
$436.76 (+50.2%)
Sector
Industrials
Industry
Industrial Distribution
Exchange
NYQ
Country
United States
Website
wesco.com
Symbol
WCC
Description
WESCO International, Inc. is a leading business-to-business distributor, offering comprehensive supply chain solutions across the United States, Canada, and international markets. The company operates through three primary segments: Electrical & Electronic Solutions, Communications & Security Solutions, and Utility and Broadband Solutions. WESCO's Electrical & Electronic Solutions segment provides a wide array of electrical equipment, automation products, and related services, including supply chain optimization programs. The Communications & Security Solutions segment focuses on network infrastructure and security markets, while the Utility and Broadband Solutions segment serves utilities, broadband operators, and contractors with essential products and services. Founded in 1922 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, WESCO provides a diverse range of products and services designed to meet the evolving needs of its customers.
Bought (1Y)
960 shares
$351K
Sold (1Y)
5,572.417 shares
$2.0M
Dev IndraneelEVP & CFO
Award/Grant23.46 shares2026-09-30
ENGEL JOHNChairman, President & CEO
Award/Grant30.173 shares2026-09-30
Marino Anthony SEVP & CHRO
Award/Grant1.42 shares2026-09-30
Lazzaris DianeEVP and General Counsel
Award/Grant4.182 shares2026-09-30
Thompson Laura K-
Award/Grant2.38 shares2026-09-30
View full insider trading history →
69/ 100
Bullish
Overall: Bullish
✓Revenue growing year over year
✓Positive net margin
✓Positive operating cash flow
Gross Margin
21.1%
Net Margin
2.7%
Revenue CAGR
8.2%
Current Ratio
2.20x
Debt / Equity
1.15x
Return on Equity
12.7%
View full financials →
Earnings Summary
In the last two quarters, Q3 2026 and Q4 2026, the company reported EPS of $5.77 and $4.57, respectively, both exceeding estimates of $4.73 and $3.97, and revenue of $7.226 billion and $6.665 billion, up 17 % and 8 % YoY, reflecting a steady acceleration in organic sales. Compared to Q1 and Q2 2026, WESCO maintained a consistent pattern of EPS beats and revenue growth, with Q4 2026 showing a modest revenue increase but a stronger EPS margin, indicating improving profitability. Historically, WESCO has posted YoY revenue growth of 13‑14 % in 2026, with EPS beats in every quarter of the fiscal year, demonstrating a reliable earnings trend. Recent news from October 30, 2026, reported record third‑quarter results, including a 55 % surge in data center sales and a 140 % backlog growth in Communications and Security Solutions, which underpin the company’s upward guidance revision and analyst upgrade.

EPS

EstBeatMiss
$2.37$3.33$4.29$5.25$6.21Q4'24Q4'25Q1'26Q2'26Q3'26Q4'26
QtrEstActual+/−
Q4'26$4.56 - -
Q3'26$4.73$5.77+21.9%
Q2'26$3.97$4.57+15.2%
Q1'26$2.81$3.37+19.9%
Q4'25$2.96$3.40+14.8%
Q4'24$3.21$3.16-1.7%

Revenue

EstBeatMiss
$5.2B$5.8B$6.4B$6.9B$7.5BQ4'24Q4'25Q1'26Q2'26Q3'26Q4'26
QtrEstActual+/−
Q4'26$7.0B - -
Q3'26$6.9B$7.2B+4.3%
Q2'26$6.5B$6.7B+2.5%
Q1'26$5.9B$6.1B+2.6%
Q4'25$5.8B$6.1B+4.8%
Q4'24 - $5.5B -
Full Earnings BreakdownEstimates, actuals, guidance, and historical context
→

Market Data

WCC Stock Snapshot

BULLISH86/100
$290.82+$4.35 (1.5%)
Market cap
14.42B
P/E ratio
20.6
Day range
$287.00 – $300.01
News sentiment
72/100 · Bullish
Analyst target
$418.09 (+43.8%)
Consensus
Strong Buy · 17 analysts
52-week range+20.9% off low · -25.2% from high
$240.55$388.64
Price $290.82 DailyIQ Est. $436.76

The signal on WCC is bullish: price action is confirming the underlying trend, not fighting it. The stock is liquid enough that positioning changes get absorbed without distorting the trend.

Reverse DCF

What growth is priced into WCC?

RICH

At today's price, WESCO International, Inc. needs to grow free cash flow about 91.6% a year for 3 years, slowing to a long-run rate by year 10, to justify its valuation at a 8.03% cost of capital. Over the last five years its revenue has trended at 5.4% a year, so the market is asking for 86.2 percentage points above its own delivered rate. On that basis WCC looks priced above what its own growth record supports.

Implied FCF growth
91.6%
Growth trend
5.4%
Growth gap
+86.2 pts
Verdict
RICH
Discount rate (WACC)
8.03%
Beta
1.35

Behaviour On Record

What WCC's own history says about today's numbers

Realized volatility (21d)
60.4% 93rd pct
Below its peak
-17.5%
vs 200-day average
-3.6%
Up days (1y)
53%

WESCO International, Inc. is currently running 60.4% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against WCC's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 93rd percentile — an extreme by its own standards, against a typical reading of 32.6%.

WCC is trading -17.5% below its running peak. Across 13 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -30.5%, and the deepest was -73.7% in 2020. The current pullback is therefore shallower than what this stock gives back in a typical year, which is context worth having before treating it as a dislocation.

Price sits -3.6% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 32nd percentile — close to the gap it normally carries. Over the past year WCC closed higher on 53% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a falling streak.

On November specifically: over 13 years of records, WCC finished the month higher 8 of 13 times, with a median return of +2.4% and an average of +7.3%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +7.3% on average, its weakest March at -2.0%.

Overnight risk is measurable too: WCC has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 284 of 3,267 sessions (8.7% of the time), with the largest gaps running +14.8% and -16.4%.

Across the last 4 dated reports on file, WCC moved an average of 2.9% in the session after earnings, closing higher 2 of those 4 times, with a median move of +0.3% and a largest of +6.0%.

All figures computed from 3,268 daily closes between 2013-11-06 and 2026-11-04, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against WCC's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.

Sector Rotation

Is money rotating into or out of WCC's sector?

WESCO International, Inc. sits in the Industrials sector, currently ranked 8th of 12 GICS sectors by relative-strength rotation score (weakening).

Sector rank
#8 of 12
Sector state
Weakening
Sector rotation score
27

Options Market

What is the options market pricing for WCC?

CallsPuts

For WESCO International, Inc.'s nearest expiry (2026-11-20, 14 days out), open interest is put-heavy, a defensive/bearish tilt (put/call ratio of 2.91), with at-the-money implied volatility around 53.8%. The options market is pricing roughly a ±11.1% move by that expiry — a range of about $258.35–$322.91.

Put/call ratio (2026-11-20)
2.91
ATM implied volatility
53.8%
Total open interest
739
Expected move by 2026-11-20
±11.1% ($258.35–$322.91)

Analyst Consensus Estimates

What do analysts expect WCC to earn?

Analysts expect WESCO International, Inc. to earn $18.40 per share in the fiscal year ending Dec 2026 and $26.26 in the fiscal year ending Dec 2029, from 2 estimates. These are analyst forecasts, not company guidance, and later years rest on fewer analysts.

Quarter endingEPS estimateEPS rangeEPS analystsRevenue estimateRevenue analysts
Dec 2026$4.24$4.11 to $4.399$6.92B9
Mar 2027$4.14$3.55 to $4.697$6.65B7
Jun 2027$4.86$4.61 to $5.233~$7.25B-
Sep 2027$5.42$5.03 to $5.833~$8.08B-
Fiscal year endingEPS estimateEPS rangeEPS analystsRevenue estimateRevenue analysts
Dec 2026$18.40$18.24 to $18.499$26.88B10
Dec 2027$21.78$19.00 to $23.0111$29.04B10
Dec 2028$22.59$21.24 to $23.403~$33.69B-
Dec 2029$26.26$26.02 to $26.502~$39.17B-

Revenue marked ~ is our calculation from the EPS estimate, not analyst consensus.

Analyst Rating Changes

Are analysts turning bullish or bearish on WCC?

RBC Capital most recently reiterated its rating on WESCO International, Inc. to Outperform on Oct 30, 2026 with a price target of $450 (from $435). Over the last 90 days, coverage has run 0 upgrades against 0 downgrades, a net mixed lean.

Latest action
RBC Capital: Outperform
90-day upgrades
0
90-day downgrades
0
Net rating momentum
0
DateFirmActionRatingPrice target
Oct 30, 2026RBC CapitalMaintainedOutperform$435 → $450
Oct 14, 2026RBC CapitalMaintainedOutperform$430 → $435
Oct 12, 2026BarclaysMaintainedOverweight$390 → $437
Aug 3, 2026BarclaysMaintainedOverweight$376 → $390
Jul 31, 2026RBC CapitalMaintainedOutperform$421 → $430
Jul 16, 2026RBC CapitalMaintainedOutperform$411 → $421
Jul 14, 2026Stephens & Co.UpgradeEqual-Weight → Overweight$350 → $400
Jun 16, 2026DA DavidsonInitiatedBuy$440
May 4, 2026BarclaysMaintainedOverweight$313 → $375
May 4, 2026Stephens & Co.MaintainedEqual-Weight$275 → $350
May 1, 2026RBC CapitalMaintainedOutperform$352 → $411
May 1, 2026KeybancMaintainedOverweight$340 → $415

Earnings Release, Scored

What did WESCO International, Inc.'s latest earnings release say?

Filed Oct 29, 2026 · SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99

Tone77.2/ 100-11.2 vs prior release
Hedging words0.51per 100 words+0.37 vs prior release
Tone, last 3 releasesScale 50–96

Most important lines

  1. 1

    – Non-data center sales up 7% YOY

    New this quarter
  2. 2

    Financial leverage of 2.8x, down from 3.4x at 2025 year-end

    New this quarterNegative tone
  3. 3

    A $198.6 million impact from inventories also offset the increases, primarily due to an increase in volume related to increased growth in large projects as compared to the prior year.

    New this quarter

Scores describe the release's wording. They are not a forecast.

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Peers & ETF holders

WCC peers & ETF holders

Industrial DistributionMarket cap · today

Top ETF holdersWeight

News & sentiment

What is the news saying about WCC?

WCC fell 24.3% over the month to Nov 6. News tone held between 0 and 66 from Oct 7 to Oct 16, then jumped to 75 on Oct 21.

Daily close and news tone, Oct 6 to Nov 6
$300$350Oct 6Oct 7: tone 48Oct 8: tone 55Oct 9: tone 55Oct 12: tone 65Oct 13: tone 37Oct 14: tone 66Oct 15Oct 16: tone 0Oct 19Oct 20Oct 21: tone 75Oct 22Oct 23: tone 66Oct 26Oct 27: tone 42Oct 28: tone 66Oct 29: tone 79Oct 30: tone 73Nov 2: tone 71Nov 3: tone 73Nov 4Nov 5Nov 6Oct 6News toneNov 6123
  1. Oct 22 -7.2%
  2. Nov 4 -9.9%
  3. Nov 5 -9.6%
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Technical analysis

How strong is WCC's momentum right now?

On the daily chart WCC ranks at the 86th percentile for momentum against 1,060 stocks and ETFs, a bullish reading.

Momentum rank by timeframe0 = weakest, 100 = strongest
See what drives the rankThe inputs behind each timeframe's momentum rank, plus RSI, stochastics, Bollinger Bands and moving averages. Free with an account.

Institutional ownership

Are big funds buying or selling WCC?

70 of the 161 tracked managers added to WCC in their latest 13F and 82 trimmed. Together they own 77.6% of the company, worth $13.1B. BlackRock and Vanguard Capital Management alone hold 22.4%.

70adding82trimming9unchanged
Largest holders by stake, latest 13FBar = share of WCC
  1. 1BlackRock, Inc.18.02%
    $3.1B positionTrimmed 4.6% last quarter
  2. 2Vanguard Capital Management LLC4.43%
    $760.1M positionAdded 0.6% last quarter
  3. 3Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC4.17%
    $715.8M positionTrimmed 0.1% last quarter
  4. 4Wellington Management Group LLP4.06%
    $697.2M positionTrimmed 43.9% last quarter
  5. 5Dimensional Fund Advisors LP3.34%
    $597.0M positionTrimmed 17.6% last quarter
  6. 6State Street Corp3.05%
    $523.6M positionAdded 3.5% last quarter
  7. 7Invesco Ltd.1.95%
    $335.6M positionTrimmed 35.6% last quarter
  8. 8Jane Street Group, LLC1.90%
    $327.0M positionAdded 933.5K shares last quarter
  9. 9Geode Capital Management, LLC1.87%
    $320.6M positionTrimmed 1.1% last quarter
  10. 10Norges Bank1.73%
    $297.2M positionAdded 35.2% last quarter
Full holdings history

Congressional trading

Is Congress trading WCC?

1 member of Congress disclosed 1 WCC trade on Jun 23, 2025: 1 sell, about $8.0K in estimated value.

BuysSellsJun
BuySell$1K–$15K$15K–$50K$50K–$100K$100K–$250K
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How has WCC done against its peers?

Over the six months to Nov 6, WCC returned −19.9%. Of the 15 related stocks and ETFs, 12 did better, led by MCK at +42.4%.

Change since May 6, through Nov 6
−50%−25%0%+25%+50%May 6JunJulAugSepOctNov 6MCK +42.4%WCC −19.9%QXO −43.0%