With 1.21 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.71 million shares. During the session, the Capital Markets company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $9.9999 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $9.78. The 52-week range on BGC shows that it touched its highest point at $11.79 and its lowest point at $7.24 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $14.50. With its current market cap of 4.86 billion, BGC has annualized dividend of $0.08 while the current yield stands at 0.80%. BGC paid its most recent dividend on 1748304000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1748304000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.11.
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 BGC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.08%, but this was up by 4.73% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 2.57% while six-month performance rose 13.83%. The stock gained 9.93% in the past year, while it has gained 20.87% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BGC yields 0.26 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.39. For the next quarter, that number is 0.30. This implies an EPS growth rate of 18.69% for this year and 18.30% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 378.13 million BGC shares are outstanding with a float of 358.42 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-06-13, short shares totaled 10.37 million, which was 212.0 higher than short shares on 1747267200. In addition to Mr. Stephen Marcus Merkel as the firm’s Executive VP, General Counsel & Chairman of the Board, Mr. Sean A. Windeatt serves as its COO & Co-CEO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.82399005 of BGC’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, BGC reported revenue of $652611000.0 and operating income of $101490000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $126502000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.11.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for BGC since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 BGC analysts setting a high price target of 15.0 and a low target of 14.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 14.5. Based on these targets, BGC could surge 50.6% to reach the target high and rise by 40.56% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 45.58% 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 $1.00434 being high and $0.97566 being low. For BGC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.99.
