Genesco Inc (NYSE:GCO) price on Thursday, July 03, fall -0.54% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $22.25.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $22.37, moving within a range at $22.085 and $22.57. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 2.163. Turning to its 52-week performance, $44.80 and $16.19 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, GCO moved -0.45% over the past month.
Genesco Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $239.83 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Jun-04.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that GCO is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
4 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 3 recommend GCO as a Buy and 1 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
GCO’s current price about 3.03% and 3.37% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 54.00, while 7-day volatility ratio is 6.40% and 6.18% in the 30-day chart. Further, Genesco Inc (GCO) has a beta value of 2.23. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $24, forecast between a low of $24 and high of $24. Looking at the price targets, the low is -7.87% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -7.87%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -7.87% jump to $24 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Genesco Inc (NYSE:GCO), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.28 over the past 10 days and 318.42K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 10.78 million shares.
The 8.92% of Genesco Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 95.46% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 1.59 million on 2025-06-13, giving us a short ratio of 5.46. The data shows that as of 2025-06-13 short interest in Genesco Inc (GCO) stood at 2143.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 1.36 million registered in 2025-05-15. Current price change has pushed the stock -8.59% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the GCO stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
