With 1.14 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.98 million shares. During the session, the Semiconductors company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $38.54 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $37.76. The 52-week range on GFS shows that it touched its highest point at $61.98 and its lowest point at $29.77 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $43.47. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.51.
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 GFS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.04%, but this was down by -4.53% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 3.75% while six-month performance fell -15.85%. The stock lost -20.50% in the past year, while it has lost -11.68% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GFS yields -0.35 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.20. For the next quarter, that number is 0.36. This implies an EPS growth rate of 3.74% for this year and 35.99% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 19.13% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 18.83%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 554.73 million GFS shares are outstanding with a float of 104.62 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-05-30, short shares totaled 9.42 million, which was 170.00000000000003 higher than short shares on 1745971200. In addition to Dr. Thomas H. Caulfield DES, Ph.D. as the firm’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Timothy Graham Breen serves as its CEO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.0223 of GFS’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
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 2025-03-31, GFS reported revenue of $1585000000.0 and operating income of $151000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $503000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.38.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for GFS since 12 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 7 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 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 GFS analysts setting a high price target of 55.0 and a low target of 35.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 43.39474. Based on these targets, GFS could surge 45.12% to reach the target high and fall by -7.65% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 14.5% 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 $1.56992 being high and $1.34547 being low. For GFS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.54992.
