With 10.36 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 4.69 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Life company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $7.185 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $6.97. The 52-week range on GNW shows that it touched its highest point at $7.90 and its lowest point at $5.67 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $8.50. GNW paid its most recent dividend on 1223424000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1223424000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.99.
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 down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.07%, but this was up by 5.80% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 1.72% while six-month performance rose 4.71%. The stock gained 12.15% in the past year, while it has gained 1.72% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GNW yields 0.67 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.55. For the next quarter, that number is 0.29. This implies an EPS growth rate of 33.06% for this year and -33.33% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 421.42 million GNW shares are outstanding with a float of 406.78 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 7.3 million, which was 173.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1739491200. 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 0.90672994 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 8.5 and a low target of 8.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 8.5. Based on these targets, GNW could surge 19.55% to reach the target high and rise by 19.55% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 19.55% 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 $0.825 being high and $0.825 being low. For GNW, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.825.
