With 0.51 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.16 million shares. During the session, the Apparel Retail company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $35.9884 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $32.5. The 52-week range on GCO shows that it touched its highest point at $43.81 and its lowest point at $16.19 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $35.25. GCO paid its most recent dividend on 103161600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 103161600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.89.
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 GCO was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 26.87%, but this was up by 42.63% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 25.17% while six-month performance rose 53.74%. The stock gained 39.52% in the past year, while it has lost -16.36% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GCO yields -0.18 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.08. For the next quarter, that number is 3.47. This implies an EPS growth rate of 29.26% for this year and 71.19% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 10.79 million GCO shares are outstanding with a float of 9.81 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-12-31, short shares totaled 0.95 million, which was 876.0 higher than short shares on 1764288000. In addition to Ms. Mimi Eckel Vaughn as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Ms. Cassandra E. Harris serves as its Senior VP of Finance, CFO & Principal Accounting Officer.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2025-11-01, GCO reported revenue of $616217000.0 and operating income of $12908000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $26120000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.5.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for GCO since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 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 GCO analysts setting a high price target of 43.0 and a low target of 27.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 35.25. Based on these targets, GCO could surge 24.42% to reach the target high and fall by -21.88% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 2.0% 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 $1.12762 being high and $0.48604 being low. For GCO, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.6999. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was -$1.25. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is -$1.66 and the low estimate is -$1.91. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$1.82.
