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World Acceptance Corp operates a small-loan consumer finance (installment loan) business. It offers short-term small installment loans, medium-term larger installment loans, related credit insurance and ancillary products and services to individuals. The Company generally serves individuals with limited access to other sources of consumer credit such as banks, credit unions, other consumer finance businesses and credit card lenders. The Company also offers income tax return preparation services to its loan customers and other individuals. The traditional installment loan industry is a fragmented segment of the consumer lending industry. The Company has one reportable segment: the consumer finance segment.
World Acceptance trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol WRLD.
As of September 10, 2026, WRLD stock price climbed to $190.00 with 48,473 million shares trading.
WRLD has a beta of -0.16, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. WRLD has a correlation of 0.00 to the broad based SPY ETF.
WRLD has a market cap of $885.48 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.
Last quarter World Acceptance reported $139 million in Revenue and $2.12 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-5 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $1.45.
In the last 3 years, WRLD traded as high as $227.68 and as low as $94.57.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that WRLD belongs to (by Net Assets): AVUV, VTI, DFMC, VXF, FNDA.
WRLD has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +10.4%, while SPY returned +17.7%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in WRLD shares. However, WRLD has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +12.1% and -0.6%, while SPY returned +3.1% and -1.1%, respectively. This indicates WRLD has been having a stronger performance recently.
WRLD support price is $184.73 and resistance is $194.13 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that WRLD shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
