With 2.86 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 3.07 million shares. During the session, the Capital Markets company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $509.17 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $494.68. The 52-week range on GS shows that it touched its highest point at $672.19 and its lowest point at $402.41 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $594.45. With its current market cap of 155.82 billion, GS has annualized dividend of $11.75 while the current yield stands at 2.34%. GS paid its most recent dividend on 1740700800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1748563200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.30.
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 GS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.40%, but this was down by -10.90% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -19.90% while six-month performance fell -5.38%. The stock gained 24.13% in the past year, while it has lost -12.44% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GS yields 43.09 with Next year EPS estimates of 50.18. For the next quarter, that number is 9.80. This implies an EPS growth rate of 10.46% for this year and 12.05% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 10.90% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 14.03%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 317.10 million GS shares are outstanding with a float of 309.25 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 4.02 million, which was 128.999995 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. David Solomon as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. John E. Waldron serves as its President, COO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.74306 of GS’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 GS since 23 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 17 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 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 GS analysts setting a high price target of 720.0 and a low target of 490.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 585.2222. Based on these targets, GS could surge 43.61% to reach the target high and fall by -2.27% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 16.73% 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 $38.32065 being high and $35.87802 being low. For GS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $36.89661. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $11.01 and the low estimate is $9.62. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $10.17.
