The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS) shares, rose in value on Friday, May 26, with the stock price up by 1.91% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $330.07.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $323.88, falling within a range of $318.80 and $325.18. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.40 whereas the PE ratio is 11.53 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $389.58, and the low was $277.84. On the whole, GS has fluctuated by -3.38% over the past month.
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With the market capitalization of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. currently standing at about $108.80 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for Jul 18, 2023. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 10.00, with its dividend yield at 3.09%.
Revisions could be a useful indicator to get insight on short-term price movement; so for the company, there were no upward and no downward review(s) in last seven days. We see that GS’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Sell on average. However, medium term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
27 analyst(s) have assigned their ratings of the stock’s forecast evaluation on a scale of 1.00-5.00 to indicate a strong buy to a strong sell recommendation. The stock is rated as a Hold by 9 analyst(s), 15 recommend it as a Buy and 2 called the GS stock Overweight. In the meantime, 1 analyst(s) believe the stock as Underweight and 0 think it is a Sell. Thus, investors eager to increase their holdings of the company’s stock will have an opportunity to do so as the average rating for the stock is Overweight.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 10.38, with the price of GS currently trading nearly 1.10% and 1.13% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 53.01, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.61% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.79%. Furthermore, The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS)’s beta value is 1.41, and its average true range (ATR) is 6.18. The company’s stock has been forecasted to trade at an average price of $389.04 over the course of the next 52 weeks, with a low of $330.00 and a high of $470.00. Based on these price targets, the low is 0.02% off current price, whereas the price has to move -42.39% to reach the yearly target high. Additionally, analysts’ median price of $390.00 is likely to be welcomed by investors because it represents a decrease of -18.16% from the current levels.
A comparison of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. GS showed an intraday change of 1.91% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 4.82%%. In comparison, Bank of America Corporation (BAC) has moved lower at -0.27% today and is down -21.61% over the past 12 months. On the other hand, the price of Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) has risen 0.86% today. The stock, however, is off -6.50% from where it was a year ago. Additionally, there is a gain of 1.72% for Morgan Stanley (MS) in recent trading while the stock has seen an overall depriciation of 2.68%% over the past year. The PE ratio stands at 11.53 for The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., compared to 8.50 for Bank of America Corporation, and 11.68 for Wells Fargo & Company. Other than that, the overall performance of the S&P 500 during the today’s session so far shows that it gained 1.06%. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Improved by 0.94%.
Data on historical trading for The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.53 million and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 2.44 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 346.60 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.30% of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 71.40% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 3.6 million shares as on Apr 27, 2023, resulting in a short ratio of 1.72. According to the data, the short interest in The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) stood at 1.08% of shares outstanding as of Apr 27, 2023; the number of short shares registered in Mar 30, 2023 reached 3.53 million. The stock has fallen by -3.88% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the GS stock heading into the next quarter.
