Gap, Inc (NYSE:GAP) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, June 18, with the stock price down by -0.62% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $20.86.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $20.99, falling within a range of $20.81 and $21.22. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 2.171 whereas the PE ratio was 9.09 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $29.29, and the low was $16.99. On the whole, GAP has fluctuated by -25.39% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Gap, Inc currently standing at about $7.78 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-29. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.61, with its dividend yield at 2.95%.
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% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of Hold while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.80, with the price of GAP currently trading nearly -11.81% and -8.08% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 36.59, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.06% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.42%. Furthermore, Gap, Inc (GAP)’s beta value is 2.17, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.92.
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 -0.62% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -16.53%%.
Data on historical trading for Gap, Inc (NYSE:GAP) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 9.92 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 11.32 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 374.00 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 35.28% of Gap, Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 63.19% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 14.04 million shares as on 2025-05-30, resulting in a short ratio of 1.14. According to the data, the short interest in Gap, Inc (GAP) stood at 688.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-05-30; the number of short shares registered in 2025-04-30 reached 23.93 million. The stock has fallen by -11.72% 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.
