The Gap Inc. (NYSE:GPS) price closed higher on Friday, September 15, jumping 1.91% above its previous close.
A look at the daily price movement shows that the last close reads $10.99, with intraday deals fluctuated between $10.925 and $11.46. The company’s 5Y monthly beta was ticking 1.92 while its P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period read 38.23. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $15.49 and 52-week low of $7.22. The stock added 9.70% on its value in the past month.
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The Gap Inc., which has a market valuation of $4.07 billion, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report Nov 15, 2023 – Nov 20, 2023. The company stock has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.60, while the dividend yield is 5.36%. It is understandable that investor optimism is growing ahead of the company’s current quarter results. Analysts tracking GPS have forecast the quarterly EPS to grow by 0.16 per share this quarter, while the same analysts predict the annual EPS to hit $0.67 for the year 2023 and up to $0.86 for 2025. In this case, analysts estimate an annual EPS growth of 267.50% for the year and 28.40% for the next year.
On average, analysts have forecast the company’s revenue for the quarter will hit $3.6 billion, with the likely lows of $3.51 billion and highs of $3.64 billion. Staying with the analyst view, there is a consensus estimate of $14.7 billion for the company’s annual revenue in 2024. Per this projection, the revenue is forecast to grow -5.90% below that which the company brought in 2024.
Revisions to the company’s EPS highlights a short term direction of a stock’s price movement, which in the last 7 days came up with no upward and no downward reviews. On the technical perspective front, indicators give GPS a short term outlook of 100% Buy on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 50% Buy, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 50% Buy.
Here is a look at the average analyst rating for the stock as represented on a scale of 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock is strong buy or strong sell respectively. Specifically, 21 analysts have assigned GPS a recommendation rating as follows: 11 rate it as a Hold; 3 advise Buy while 1 analyst(s) assign an Overweight rating. 4 analyst(s) have tagged the The Gap Inc. (GPS) stock as Underweight, with 2 recommending Sell. In general, analysts have rated the stock Hold, a scenario likely to bolster investors out for an opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
The overview shows that GPS’s price is at present 3.99% off the SMA20 and 9.44% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 57.23, with weekly volatility standing at 3.79%. The indicator jumps to 3.85% when calculated based on the past 30 days. The Gap Inc. (NYSE:GPS)’s beta value is holding at 1.92, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.41. Considering analysts have assigned the stock a price target range of $6.00-$18.00 as the low and high respectively, we find the trailing 12-month average consensus price target to be $10.81. Based on this estimate, we see that current price is roughly 46.43% off the estimated low and -60.71% off the forecast high. Investors will no doubt be excited to see the share price rise to $10.00, which is the median consensus price, and at that level GPS would be 10.71% from current price.
Turning out attention to how the The Gap Inc. stock has performed in comparison to its peers in the industry, here’s what we find: GPS’s stock is 1.91% on the day and 19.91% in the past 12 months, while Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) traded -2.99% in the last session and was positioned 9.21% up on its price 12 months ago. Another comparison is with The TJX Companies Inc. (TJX) whose stock price was down -1.23% in the last trading session, and has flourished 43.63% over the past year. As for The Gap Inc., the P/E ratio stands at 38.23 lower than that of Amazon.com Inc.’s at 111.60 and The TJX Companies Inc.’s 27.12. Elsewhere in the market, the S&P 500 Index has stumbled -1.22% in last trading session, with the Dow Jones Industrial also saw a negative session on the day with -0.83%.
An analysis of the The Gap Inc. (NYSE:GPS) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 7.54 million. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 7.98 million.
Current records show that the company has 369.00M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 5.70% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 59.30%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Aug 30, 2023, stood at 38.85 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 4.94. From this we can glean that short interest is 10.50% of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in August rose slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 34.98 million. But the -0.71% downside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of last trading, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.
