With 0.62 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.65 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Life company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $144.0 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $139.95. The 52-week range on GL shows that it touched its highest point at $143.84 and its lowest point at $86.10 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $157.58. With its current market cap of 11.59 billion, GL has annualized dividend of $1.02 while the current yield stands at 0.73%. GL paid its most recent dividend on 1751500800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1751500800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.56.
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 6.81%, but this was up by 12.47% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 13.89% while six-month performance rose 15.19%. The stock gained 25.96% in the past year, while it has gained 52.57% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GL yields 12.51 with Next year EPS estimates of 15.03. For the next quarter, that number is 4.47. This implies an EPS growth rate of 15.63% for this year and 5.06% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 9.95% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 11.82%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 82.54 million GL shares are outstanding with a float of 82.01 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 1.32 million, which was 160.0 higher than short shares on 1749772800. 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.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for GL since 8 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 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 GL analysts setting a high price target of 188.0 and a low target of 135.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 156.90909. Based on these targets, GL could surge 33.84% to reach the target high and fall by -3.89% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 11.7% 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 $12.33525 being high and $12.25535 being low. For GL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $12.30529. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $3.24. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $3.91 and the low estimate is $3.42. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $3.55.
