WWD|Earnings Snapshot
EPS
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q2'26 | $2.08 | - | - |
| Q3'26 | $2.53 | $2.52 | -0.2% |
| Q1'25 | $1.46 | $1.69 | +15.4% |
Revenue
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q2'26 | $1.0B | - | - |
| Q3'26 | $1.1B | $1.1B | -0.5% |
| Q1'25 | - | $884M | - |
WWD|Monthly Returns
Market Data
WWD Stock Snapshot
- Market cap
- 19.91B
- P/E ratio
- 36.1
- Day range
- $314.81 – $329.06
- News sentiment
- 63/100 · Bullish
- Analyst target
- $440.67 (+37.9%)
- Consensus
- Buy · 19 analysts
WWD's technical picture is under pressure, with momentum working against price. Earnings and guidance carry more weight than macro data at this capitalisation.
Reverse DCF
What growth is priced into WWD?
At today's price, Woodward, Inc. needs to grow free cash flow about 40.7% a year for the next 10 years to justify its valuation at a 10.09% cost of capital. Over its actual history it has compounded free cash flow at 10.1% a year, so the market is asking for 30.6 percentage points above its own delivered rate. On that basis WWD looks priced above what its own growth record supports.
- Implied FCF growth
- 40.7%
- Historical FCF CAGR
- 10.1%
- Growth gap
- +30.6 pts
- Verdict
- RICH
- Discount rate (WACC)
- 10.09%
- Beta
- 1.05
Behaviour On Record
What WWD's own history says about today's numbers
- Realized volatility (21d)
- 31.5% 69th pct
- Below its peak
- -27.3%
- vs 200-day average
- -12.3%
- Up days (1y)
- 48%
Woodward, Inc. is currently running 31.5% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against WWD's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 69th percentile — a little above its own norm, against a typical reading of 25.4%. The distinction matters because a number that looks calm for one stock is turbulent for another, and the absolute figure on its own tells you neither.
WWD is trading -27.3% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -19.5%, and the deepest was -60.7% in 2020. The current drawdown is already deeper than this stock's typical annual low point, which puts it in the part of its range where past recoveries began — and where past declines also continued.
Price sits -12.3% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 7th percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year WWD closed higher on 48% of sessions, and it is currently 2 sessions into a falling streak.
On September specifically: over 14 years of records, WWD finished the month higher 6 of 14 times, with a median return of -2.5% and an average of -2.1%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +8.6% on average, its weakest March at -3.4%. Seasonality is a weak signal on its own — a decade is a small sample and regimes change — but it is a real distribution rather than a rule of thumb.
Overnight risk is measurable too: WWD has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 153 of 3,268 sessions (4.7% of the time), with the largest gaps running +11.0% and -17.9%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.
All figures computed from 3,269 daily closes between 2013-09-16 and 2026-09-15, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against WWD's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.
Sector Rotation
Is money rotating into or out of WWD's sector?
Woodward, Inc. sits in the Industrials sector, currently ranked 11th of 11 GICS sectors by relative-strength rotation score (lagging).
- Sector rank
- #11 of 11
- Sector state
- Lagging
- Sector rotation score
- 10
Analyst Rating Changes
Are analysts turning bullish or bearish on WWD?
Guggenheim most recently initiated coverage on Woodward, Inc. to Buy on Sep 15, 2026 with a price target of $404. Over the last 90 days, coverage has run 0 upgrades against 0 downgrades, a net mixed lean.
- Latest action
- Guggenheim — Buy
- 90-day upgrades
- 0
- 90-day downgrades
- 0
- Net rating momentum
- 0
