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WW International, Inc.

$WW·$144M·Personal Products & Services·Consumer Cyclical
$16.69+3.0%YTD-44.0%1Y-47.3%
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2026-08-22: 25 posts512+5%
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WWWW
$WWWW International, Inc.
$16.69+3.02%512 posts+5%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

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Today's AI verdict on what's driving $WW, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Broken storySelling offAI verdict · as of 2026-08-30

Falling on heavy selling — points lower unless it turns around.

The pre-Ozempic weight-loss brand is running out of relevance — the tape is telling.

WW International is the rebranded Weight Watchers, and its business model — subscription-based coaching for behavioural weight loss — has been the collateral damage of the GLP-1 era. The stock is down 44% YTD, 51% over twelve months, and now trades at a $140M cap against $632M of forecast revenue.

  • The revenue and EPS shape are declining together: quarterly revenue ran $177M / $184M / $163M / $168M with quarterly EPS printing $14.81 (one-time item), $-5.63, $-0.58, $-5.20 — that's an income statement dominated by charges and restructuring, not durable profitability, and analysts model a $4.73 full-year EPS loss on the surviving base.
  • The competitive backdrop keeps getting worse: GLP-1 medications (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro) are the direct competitors that took a chunk of WW's traditional membership funnel, and each new indication expansion further compresses the addressable behavioural-coaching market — the company's own GLP-1 tie-ins haven't been enough to offset the base decline.
  • The corporate story is fragile enough that prediction-market chatter names WW alongside 'struggling brands fighting to survive' — the equity is priced for a real going-concern question, not a normal cyclical trough, and the tape is not disagreeing.

A Nov 5 print that shows subscriber decline stabilizing and a credible GLP-1-integrated care model with per-member economics that pencil is what would restart the story; another sequential subscriber drop and negative gross-add commentary confirms the broken-story read and puts the equity closer to the low double digits.

What to watch: The Nov 5 Q3 print — subscriber base, gross adds, and any GLP-1-integrated program economics. A further subscriber decline into negative gross adds is what confirms the going-concern read.

On the calendar: 2026-11-05 — Q3 earnings

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X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Neutral sentiment38 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-30

There is essentially no discussion of the WeightWatchers equity here. The feed is dominated by a Solana memecoin also trading as WW, a charity token tied to a Texas exotic-animal sanctuary called Wildlife Wonderland that has routed over $100,000 in creator fees to the nonprofit. Chatter centers on community-building and market cap, not the listed company.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Operates a subscription-based weight management program combining digital coaching app and food products.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Personal Products & Services sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $WW.

Personal Products & Services · Consumer Cyclical

Consumer staples demand is resilient but volume-flat; pricing power from inflation-era increases is normalizing, and promotional intensity is picking up. Emerging market growth is the incremental topline driver as developed markets plateau.

What this means for $WW

Partial — consumer discretionary / retail performance tracks consumer spending trends; WW International, Inc.

Top industry ETF

$XLYConsumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR
-1.5%YTD
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Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
0.2How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
1.2%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
1.4%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
-51.1%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
0.2Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
334%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
68.7%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
1.8Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Aug 5, 2026$1.41$0.48+193.8%
Q1 2026May 7, 2026$-5.20$-2.45-112.5%
Q4 2025Mar 16, 2026$-0.58$-0.94+38.3%
Q3 2025Nov 6, 2025$-0.44$-0.14-214.3%
Next earningsThu, Nov 5·consensus EPS $0.52

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$168.3M-9.8%58.1%-17.6%$-5.20$-39.3M
Q4 FY25$162.8M-11.7%70.1%-7.9%$-0.58$-10.3M
Q3 FY25$184.3M-4.5%72.2%5.8%$-5.63$4.7M
Q2 FY25$177.0M-12.4%73.7%23.4%$14.81$-38.0M

Forward consensus

3-year forecast · up to 2 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$632.2M$629.9M – $634.5M-$4.73-$4.87 – -$4.632
FY27$644.4M$620.4M – $668.4M-$1.51-$3.94 – $0.922
FY28$627.8M$617.7M – $641.4M-$0.30-$0.31 – -$0.291

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.8×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.26%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+4.3%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.-13.7%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatTiny float · 8.9M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.8% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β1.775-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

BuyAug 18Nikolaj H SjoqvistDirector7.2K sh$100KBuyMay 27Eugene I DavisDirector10.0K sh$147KBuyMay 26Eugene I DavisDirector1.6K sh$22KBuyMay 22Eugene I DavisDirector10.0K sh$126KBuyMay 22Felicia DellafortunaCFO1.5K sh$19KBuyMay 21Jonathan VolkmannChief Ops Off. & Member, IOCE1.5K sh$15KBuyMay 20Nikolaj H SjoqvistDirector10.0K sh$96KBuyMay 20Carney HawksDirector20.0K sh$200K
+ 13 other (13 awards) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KShareholder voteJun 158-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

WW International, Inc. (WW) reported annual meeting vote results (Item 5.07) in an 8-K filed June 15, 2026. Body unavailable — excerpt cuts off before specific vote tallies are disclosed.

8-KOfficer or director changeMay 158-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
AI summary

WW disclosed a personnel change (8-K Item 5.02, dated 2026-05-15). An executive departure and a new appointment are both reported. Tara Comonte, the Company's former President and Chief Executive. Personnel changes are generally administrative; materiality depends on seniority and circumstances.

SC 13DActivist position (5%+)May 13SC 13D
AI summary

Galloway Capital Partners, LLC filed an new Schedule 13D on WW disclosing beneficial ownership (841,700.00 shares) as of 2026-05-13. The filer's stated intent is passive investment with no plan to influence control of the company.

3/ANew insider — initial holdingsApr 293/A
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3/A (amended) for WW on 2026-04-29, initiating required Section 16 reporting. Role: of Reporting Person. Beneficial ownership covers 1,144 shares. Form 3 is a mandatory administrative filing upon first becoming an insider or 10%+ holder; it does not reflect a purchase or sale event.

3New insider — initial holdingsApr 273
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for WW on 2026-04-27, initiating required Section 16 reporting. Role: of Reporting Person. Form 3 is a mandatory administrative filing upon first becoming an insider or 10%+ holder; it does not reflect a purchase or sale event.

8-KPress release / Reg FDApr 278-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

WW filed an 8-K Item 7.01 (Reg FD) disclosure dated 2026-04-27. Reg FD disclosures make material information simultaneously available to all investors; content may include guidance updates, strategic plans, or preliminary results.

8-KOfficer or director changeApr 208-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

WW disclosed a personnel change (8-K Item 5.02, dated 2026-04-20). An executive departure and a new appointment are both reported. Personnel changes are generally administrative; materiality depends on seniority and circumstances.

3New insider — initial holdingsApr 173
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for WW on 2026-04-17, initiating required Section 16 reporting. Role: of Reporting Person. Beneficial ownership covers 2029 shares. Form 3 is a mandatory administrative filing upon first becoming an insider or 10%+ holder; it does not reflect a purchase or sale event.

+ 28 other (11 13Gs · 4 8-Ks · 3 earnings 8-Ks · 3 proxys) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

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