Since the start of 2025, WBA is up 17.8%, cutting into its now 46.6% year-over-year deficit. The stock's record high of $97.30 was nearly 10 years ago, and the shares have finished with annual losses for the past three years.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. is reportedly close to selling itself to a private equity firm in a $10 billion deal that would take the company private. The Wall Street Journal reported that Sycamore Partners would take Walgreens (Nasdaq: WBA) off the market in a deal that could be completed as early as Thursday if no major problems arise.

Walgreens Boots Alliance shares are jumping in premarket trading Tuesday, on a report that the troubled drugstore chain is nearing a deal with Sycamore Partners to be taken private for around $10 billion.