Gap, Inc (NYSE:GAP) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, March 26, with the stock price down by -0.83% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $21.38.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $21.56, falling within a range of $21.2 and $21.67. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 2.37 whereas the PE ratio was 9.71 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $30.75, and the low was $18.54. On the whole, GAP has fluctuated by -4.85% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Gap, Inc currently standing at about $8.02 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Mar-05. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.60, with its dividend yield at 2.81%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 15.31B, with a low estimate of 3.39B and a high estimate of 3.43B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 3.41B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that GAP’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 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.24, with the price of GAP currently trading nearly 1.86% and -4.56% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 49.79, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.46% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.56%. Furthermore, Gap, Inc (GAP)’s beta value is 2.15, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.12.
A comparison of Gap, Inc (GAP) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. GAP showed an intraday change of -0.83% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -23.86%%.
Data on historical trading for Gap, Inc (NYSE:GAP) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 11.0 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 7.00 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 374.00 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 35.30% of Gap, Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 63.74% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 24.74 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 2.5. According to the data, the short interest in Gap, Inc (GAP) stood at 1272.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 28.12 million. The stock has fallen by -9.52% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the GAP stock heading into the next quarter.
