WRLD - World Acceptance Corporation
World Acceptance Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in small-loan consumer finance business. The company offers short-term small installment loans, medium-term larger installment loans, related credit insurance, and ancillary products and services to individuals. It also provides automobile club memberships to its borrowers; and income tax return preparation and electronic filing services.
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Financial - Credit Services
- Market Cap
- $789.5M
- P/E Ratio
- 21.67
- Beta
- 1.17
- 52-Week Range
- 110-185.48
- CEO
- Janet Lewis Matricciani
- Employees
- 2,872
- IPO Date
- Nov 26, 1991
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
WRLD Options Snapshot
Options pricing data for WRLD is refreshed daily after the close. When listed contracts exist, this page surfaces the latest at-the-money implied volatility, max pain strike, dealer gamma exposure (GEX), and 25-delta skew. Listed contracts and live snapshots appear once the options chain has been published by the exchange for the most recent session.
What This Page Covers
The WRLD overview links into per-metric analysis views: max pain, gamma exposure, volatility skew, expected move, options chain, open interest history, and aggregate Greeks. Microstructure data is available on short interest, short volume, fail-to-deliver, and market structure. Corporate data is on fundamentals, earnings, analyst ratings, and insider trading.
Frequently asked WRLD overview questions
- What is WRLD?
- WRLD is the ticker symbol for World Acceptance Corporation, a listed security. World Acceptance Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in small-loan consumer finance business. The company offers short-term small installment loans, medium-term larger installment loans, related credit insurance, and ancillary products and services to individuals. Listed on NASDAQ. WRLD is the equity ticker shown on this page; equity options traders use the security for directional, volatility, and income strategies via the listed options chain.
- What are WRLD's key statistics?
- World Acceptance Corporation (WRLD) carries a market capitalization of $789.5M, trailing P/E ratio of 21.67, beta of 1.17 relative to the broader market, 52-week range of 110-185.48. Full income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and TTM ratio history is on the per-ticker fundamentals page; daily price history and 52-week levels are accessible from the same view. These structural inputs frame how the options market prices implied volatility around earnings windows and capital events.
- What sector or industry does WRLD belong to?
- World Acceptance Corporation operates in the Financial Services sector, in the Financial - Credit Services industry. Sector classification affects how the ticker correlates with sector ETFs, how it reacts to macro factors like rate moves and commodity prices, and how its options pricing compares to sector peers. Compare WRLD's implied volatility and skew against sector benchmarks to gauge whether the options market is pricing single-name or systemic risk relative to the broader peer group.
- How current is the WRLD data on this page?
- Options snapshots refresh after each trading session; if no snapshot is currently posted for WRLD, it usually reflects low options liquidity or a recently listed name. Company-profile fields (sector, industry, market cap, P/E, IPO date) refresh from the vendor feed nightly. Financials and earnings refresh as 10-K and 10-Q filings are parsed (typically within several business days of the actual report). FINRA microstructure data refreshes on the source's cadence (daily for short volume, bi-monthly for short interest, weekly for the OTC volume file, twice-monthly for SEC FTD).