With 3.06 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.99 million shares. During the session, the Gold company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $22.1848 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $21.74. The 52-week range on GFI shows that it touched its highest point at $22.02 and its lowest point at $12.98 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $21.27. With its current market cap of 19.57 billion, GFI has annualized dividend of $0.56 while the current yield stands at 2.54%. GFI paid its most recent dividend on 1726185600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741910400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.98.
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 GFI was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.35%, but this was up by 15.97% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 53.51% while six-month performance rose 51.28%. The stock gained 51.70% in the past year, while it has gained 65.61% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GFI yields 1.37 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.40. For the next quarter, that number is 0.43. This implies an EPS growth rate of 58.41% for this year and 10.57% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 19.90% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 48.09%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 895.02 million GFI shares are outstanding with a float of 895.02 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 9.84 million, which was 109.99999999999999 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. Martin Preece as the firm’s Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Francois Swanepoel serves as its Group Chief Technical Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.20143999 of GFI’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 GFI since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With GFI analysts setting a high price target of 25.0 and a low target of 17.2, the average target price over the next 12 months is 19.7. Based on these targets, GFI could surge 14.36% to reach the target high and fall by -21.32% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -9.88% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.2953 being high and $1.23695 being low. For GFI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.27196. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.47 and the low estimate is $0.47. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.47.
