Gentex (GNTX) Stock Price, News & Analysis

6 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Gentex in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" GNTX shares.
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6 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Gentex's stock. Their GNTX share price targets range from $33.00 to $44.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $37.83 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 12.9% from the stock's current price.
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Gentex's stock was trading at $32.66 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, GNTX stock has increased by 2.6% and is now trading at $33.51.
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Gentex saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 4,200,000 shares, an increase of 9.9% from the March 15th total of 3,820,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,440,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.9 days. Approximately 1.8% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, April 26th 2024.
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Gentex will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, April 26th at 9:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Gentex Co. (NASDAQ:GNTX) issued its quarterly earnings data on Friday, January, 26th. The auto parts company reported $0.50 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.44 by $0.06. The auto parts company had revenue of $589.13 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $563.42 million. Gentex had a net margin of 18.63% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 19.25%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 19.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.37 EPS.

Gentex declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, March 5th. Stockholders of record on Friday, April 5th will be given a dividend of $0.12 per share on Wednesday, April 17th. This represents a $0.48 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.43%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 4th.
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Gentex (NASDAQ:GNTX) pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.43%. The dividend payout ratio is 26.09%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, GNTX will have a dividend payout ratio of 19.67% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Shares of Gentex split on the morning of Friday, January 2nd 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Friday, December 5th 2014. The newly created shares were issued to shareholders after the market closes on Wednesday, December 31st 2014. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Gentex updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Friday, January, 26th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.5 billion-$2.6 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.5 billion.

54 employees have rated Gentex Chief Executive Officer Steve Downing on Glassdoor.com. Steve Downing has an approval rating of 67% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Gentex investors own include Intel (INTC), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Walt Disney (DIS), CVS Health (CVS), Micron Technology (MU), Pfizer (PFE), Visa (V) and NVIDIA (NVDA).

Gentex's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Reinhart Partners LLC. (0.43%), Alaska Permanent Fund Corp (0.09%), Touchstone Capital Inc. (0.06%), Financial Enhancement Group LLC (0.05%), Alpha Omega Wealth Management LLC (0.05%) and Capital Insight Partners LLC (0.04%). Insiders that own company stock include Gary F Goode, James A Hollars, James H Wallace, John A Mulder, Kathleen Starkoff, Kevin C Nash, Ling Zang, Matthew Chiodo, Neil Boehm, Richard O Schaum, Scott P Ryan and Steven R Downing.
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Shares of GNTX stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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