WeWork Gains on New Buy Rating at Piper Sandler

This post was originally published on this site

Since Chairman and CEO Sandeep Mathrani joined in 2020, the company’s focus has been expense rightsizing, with over $1.5 billion eliminated so far.

The analysts believe the company can achieve profitability by late 2023/early 2024, which could accelerate given its flexible work station business model fits in the post-COVID world, highlighting the fact that desk utilization rates are now 63% vs. 45% at the COVID lows, while office overall is stuck at around 35%.

The brokerage expects GAAP EPS of ($2.31) for 2022, ($1.28) for 2023, and ($0.84) for 2024. FCF forecasts stand at ($910 million) for 2022, ($278 million) for 2023, and ($10 million) for 2024.

By Davit Kirakosyan