WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. (WBTN) Stock Analysis
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Communication Services · Internet Content & Information
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $12.56: Quality below floor (2.1 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.7/10. Specifically: High short interest: 24%; Below-average business quality; Below long-term trend.
WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. operates a storytelling platform in the United States, Korea, Japan, and internationally. Its platform allows a community of creators and users to discover, create, and share new content. The company's platform offers stories primarily in two ways,... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $12.56: Quality below floor (2.1 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.7/10. Specifically: High short interest: 24%; Below-average business quality; Below long-term trend. Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 55. Score 4.7/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 7/8 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 60d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: aggressive.
Recent developments
updated 2026-06-15Recent Developments — WEBTOON Entertainment Inc.
Latest news
- NEWS 12 Communication Services Stocks Moving In Tuesday's Pre-Market Session — benzinga May 12, 2026 neutral
- NEWS AST SpaceMobile Posts Downbeat Q1 Results, Joins Hims & Hers Health, Gitlab And Other Big Stocks Moving Lower In Tuesday — benzinga May 12, 2026 neutral
- NEWS Webtoon Entertainment Sees Q2 Sales $332.000M-$342.000M vs $348.129M Est — benzinga May 11, 2026 negative
- NEWS Webtoon Entertainment Q1 Adj. EPS $0.07 Beats $(0.10) Estimate, Sales $320.872M Miss $321.659M Estimate — benzinga May 11, 2026 positive
- NEWS Earnings Scheduled For May 11, 2026 — benzinga May 11, 2026 neutral
Generated 2026-06-15T18:11:47Z.
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3 floor-breakers
Technicals below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
Unprofitable operations — net margin -24.2%. Quality floor flags this regardless of sector context.static
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $12.56: Quality below floor (2.1 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.7/10. Specifically: High short interest: 24%; Below-average business quality; Below long-term trend. Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 55. Prior stop was $11.67. Score 4.7/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $12.52 (-0.2% upside). Prior stop was $11.67. Stop-loss: $11.67.
Target reached (-14.8% upside); Quality below floor (2.1 < 4.0).
WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. trades at a P/E of N/A (forward 36.9). TrendMatrix value score: 7.0/10. Verdict: Sell.
14 analysts cover WBTN with a consensus score of 3.6/5. Average price target: $12.
What does WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. do?WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. operates a storytelling platform in the United States, Korea, Japan, and internationally....
WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. operates a storytelling platform in the United States, Korea, Japan, and internationally. Its platform allows a community of creators and users to discover, create, and share new content. The company's platform offers stories primarily in two ways, including web-comics, a graphical comic-like medium; and web-novel platforms, optimized for reading serialized text-based content. It also provides hosting services for web-comics through web and mobile applications, and paid content, advertising and IP adaptations. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. is a subsidiary of NAVER Corporation.