With 0.72 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.96 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Life company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $108.7 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $105.99. The 52-week range on GL shows that it touched its highest point at $132.00 and its lowest point at $38.95 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $109.90. With its current market cap of 9.63 billion, GL has annualized dividend of $0.93 while the current yield stands at 0.87%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.81.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of GL was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.86%, but this was up by 10.26% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 29.89% while six-month performance fell -9.03%. The stock lost -3.59% in the past year, while it has lost -11.89% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GL yields 11.06 with Next year EPS estimates of 13.24. For the next quarter, that number is 3.05. This implies an EPS growth rate of 12.15% for this year and 10.83% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 14.89% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 10.60%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 93.79 million GL shares are outstanding with a float of 87.74 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-08-30, short shares totaled 2.08 million, which was 231.0 higher than short shares on 1722384000. In addition to Mr. Frank Martin Svoboda as the firm’s Co-Chairman & Co-CEO, Mr. James Matthew Darden serves as its Co-Chairman & Co-CEO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.84413004 of GL’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for GL since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.
