WILLIAMS-SONOMA, INC.
At today's price, WILLIAMS-SONOMA, INC. (WSM) is priced for +31.6% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
At $226.95 the price works out to roughly 22x company-wide operating income, which inverts into about 34% operating growth a year for five years. The rate is within what the company has delivered in good years; the stretch is sustaining it for five. The business throws off remarkable returns. Operating margin runs around 18%, return on equity on a trailing basis is well above 50%, and the company holds net cash of about $650 million while shrinking its share count near 5% a year. No standard v
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899 institutional managers reported holding WSM in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 90% of the company; the top 10 hold 54%. 77 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 7.3M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 6% of shares outstanding (7 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
WSM has cut its share count 20.9% over the past five years, spending $3.75B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 16 years straight; the current rate is $2.64 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $856.52M in dividends and $1.98B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at WSM over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 13 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
WSM's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-02 | +11.5% | +6.8% |
| 2023-11-29 | +10.8% | +3.3% |
| 2024-03-21 | +18.5% | -9.1% |
| 2024-05-25 | -9.5% | +8.1% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
WSM's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-22 (items 5.07); 2026-05-21 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-18 (items 2.02, 8.01, 9.01); 2025-11-19 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-08-27 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 28, 2026
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