With 2.25 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.57 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Life company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $7.415 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $7.205. The 52-week range on GNW shows that it touched its highest point at $7.48 and its lowest point at $5.66 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $8.00. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.97.
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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 GNW was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.42%, but this was up by 0.69% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 8.36% while six-month performance rose 10.17%. The stock gained 23.68% in the past year, while it has gained 8.68% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GNW yields 0.20 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.90. For the next quarter, that number is 0.22. This implies an EPS growth rate of 827.78% for this year and 7.78% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 5.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -7.62%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 446.82 million GNW shares are outstanding with a float of 418.58 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 6.45 million, which was 150.999995 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Thomas Joseph McInerney as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Jerome Thomas Upton serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.87196 of GNW’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With GNW analysts setting a high price target of 7.5 and a low target of 7.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 7.5. Based on these targets, GNW could surge 3.31% to reach the target high and rise by 3.31% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 3.31% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.95572 being high and $0.72434 being low. For GNW, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.835. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.12.
