Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company (WTW) earnings on July 30, 2026
More Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company earnings
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
Willis Towers Watson reported better-than-expected profit and sales, and the stock surged as investors cheered the news.
WTW price around the earnings
336.05
Change: +6.4%
2026-07-30, 20:00 UTC
Start of the measured window
End of the measured window
312.50
321.56
330.62
339.69
315.93
July 30, 2026
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
- Thesis published
- Results released
Constructive analyst consensus and 100% beat rate support company numbers, but trajectory collapse and extreme retail positioning context expectations priced in.
Context analyzed before publication
- Trend
- Strong 30d run-up (+19.35%) collapsed from 49.5 to 11.8 score, signaling expectations exhausted.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 1.67
- Analysts covering the stock
- 19
- Average price target
- 339.68
- Lowest price target
- 275
- Highest price target
- 391
- Upside to price target
- 7.5%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 26.4%
- Revenue growth
- 8.5%
- Forward EPS
- 22.17
- Trailing EPS
- 17.04
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 8
- Strong buy: 2
- Buy: 13
- Hold: 6
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 2
- Buy
- 13
- Hold
- 6
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 0
- July 15, 2026 · Piper Sandler: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- July 9, 2026 · Wells Fargo: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- July 9, 2026 · Cantor Fitzgerald: Maintains rating (Neutral → Neutral)
- July 9, 2026 · Mizuho: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
- July 8, 2026 · UBS: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
- July 8, 2026 · Keefe, Bruyette & Woods: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
- July 7, 2026 · Barclays: Maintains rating (Equal-Weight → Equal-Weight)
- June 9, 2026 · UBS: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
Sources (9)
- WTW's Willis Business Collaborates With Kwant To Roll Out KwantSure Digital Insurance Program (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Piper Sandler Maintains Overweight on Willis Towers Watson, Raises Price Target to $317 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Wells Fargo Maintains Overweight on Willis Towers Watson, Raises Price Target to $341 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Cantor Fitzgerald Maintains Neutral on Willis Towers Watson, Raises Price Target to $344 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Mizuho Maintains Outperform on Willis Towers Watson, Raises Price Target to $361 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- UBS Maintains Buy on Willis Towers Watson, Raises Price Target to $382 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Maintains Outperform on Willis Towers Watson, Raises Price Target to $381 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Barclays Maintains Equal-Weight on Willis Towers Watson, Lowers Price Target to $303 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Willis Introduces Streamlined CyMax Cyber Facility With Pre-Agreed Pricing Grids And One-Page Application For EMEA SMEs (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Technicals
Evidence
- Price when the context was analyzed
- 316.03
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.6%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -8.8%
- 14-day change (14d)
- +10.9%
- 30-day change (30d)
- +19.4%
- 30-day relative strength
- +20.9%
- SPY change (30d)
- -1.5%
- Nearest support
- 314.07
- Distance to nearest support
- 0.6%
- Nearest resistance
- 317.54
- Distance to nearest resistance
- 0.5%
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 0.72
- Major: 314.07 (0.6% away, 0.24 ATR, 53 touches)
- Major: 311.78 (1.4% away, 0.53 ATR, 45 touches)
- Major: 310.32 (1.8% away, 0.7 ATR, 26 touches)
- Major: 317.54 (0.5% away, 0.19 ATR, 35 touches)
- Major: 320.19 (1.3% away, 0.51 ATR, 43 touches)
- Major: 322.64 (2.1% away, 0.81 ATR, 37 touches)
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +3.8%
- April 30, 2026: actual EPS 3.72 vs estimate 3.65 (surprise +1.8%)
- February 3, 2026: actual EPS 8.12 vs estimate 7.93 (surprise +2.4%)
- October 30, 2025: actual EPS 3.07 vs estimate 3.05 (surprise +0.7%)
- July 31, 2025: actual EPS 2.86 vs estimate 2.6 (surprise +10.2%)
Expected move
- Implied move
- +2.1%
- Source
- Options chain
Reactions over its last 20 earnings
- Median move
- 4.4%
- 75th percentile move
- 6.1%
- 90th percentile move
- 9%
- Up / down moves
- 10 / 10
- Average up move
- +4.5%
- Average down move
- -5.0%
Monitoring and close
What Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company reported
- Status
- Finished
| Actual EPS | 3.35 |
|---|---|
| EPS estimate | 3.12 |
| EPS surprise | +7.4% |
| Revenue | $2,466 million |
| Revenue estimate | $2,421 million |
| Revenue surprise | +1.9% |
Willis Towers Watson released its Q2 2026 earnings call presentation, following the earlier announcement of beating estimates on organic growth and margin gains.
Sources (8)
- WTW Q2 Earnings Beat Estimates on Revenue Growth and Margin Gains (opens in a new tab) — Zacks
- Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company 2026 Q2 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation (opens in a new tab) — SeekingAlpha
- Willis Towers Watson (WTW) Q2 Earnings: Taking a Look at Key Metrics Versus Estimates (opens in a new tab) — Zacks
- Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ:WTW) Q2 Earnings Beat EPS Estimates, Stock Rises in Pre-Market (opens in a new tab) — ChartMill
- Willis Towers Watson (WTW) Beats Q2 Earnings and Revenue Estimates (opens in a new tab) — Zacks
- Willis Towers Watson reported adjusted earnings of $3.35 per share, beating the $3.12 estimate, and revenue of $2.466B, above the $2.421B forecast. — Benzinga
- Willis Towers Watson Q2 Adj. EPS $3.35 Beats $3.12 Estimate, Sales $2.466B Beat $2.421B Estimate (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- WTW Reports Second Quarter 2026 Earnings (opens in a new tab) — Yahoo
Pre-market second reading after the results
- Verdict
- Beat expectations
Heading into the open, results beat expectations on both earnings and revenue and the price is indicating +3.5% pre-market, a move in line with the stock's usual reaction (about 4%). The figures confirm the optimistic scenario. Across our market history, in the 1,267 similar cases the close held that direction 86% of the time.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Accurate
- Consolidated
- +6.4%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 8.4%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 0%