Guess? (GES) Stock Price, News & Analysis

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Guess? in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" GES shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in GES, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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4 analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Guess?'s stock. Their GES share price targets range from $29.00 to $37.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $32.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 24.7% from the stock's current price.
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Guess?'s stock was trading at $23.06 at the start of the year. Since then, GES stock has increased by 11.3% and is now trading at $25.67.
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Guess? saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 7,550,000 shares, an increase of 6.3% from the March 15th total of 7,100,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,120,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.7 days. Approximately 28.1% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 22nd 2024.
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Guess?, Inc. (NYSE:GES) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, March, 20th. The company reported $2.01 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.55 by $0.46. The company had revenue of $891.05 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $855.54 million. Guess? had a net margin of 7.14% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 30.02%. The business's revenue was up 9.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $1.74 EPS.

Guess? announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, March 20th. Investors of record on Wednesday, April 17th will be paid a dividend of $0.30 per share on Friday, May 3rd. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.67%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, April 16th.
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Guess? (NYSE:GES) pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.70%. GES has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 41.38%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, GES will have a dividend payout ratio of 37.85% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Guess? (NYSE:GES) stock in their portfolio include SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT), Direxion Daily Retail Bull 3X Shares (RETL), WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Quality Dividend Growth Fund (DGRS), Invesco S&P SmallCap 600 Pure Growth ETF (RZG) and iShares US Small Cap Value Factor ETF (SVAL).Small Cap US Equity Select ETF (RNSC).

Guess? announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase program on Monday, April 1st 2024, which authorizes the company to buyback $200,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 14.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are typically an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Guess? issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday, March, 20th. The company provided EPS guidance of 2.560-3.000 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 2.920. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.1 billion-$3.2 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.8 billion.

82 employees have rated Guess? Chief Executive Officer Carlos Alberini on Glassdoor.com. Carlos Alberini has an approval rating of 69% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Guess? investors own include Coty (COTY), CVS Health (CVS), Energy Transfer (ET), AT&T (T), Ford Motor (F), Intel (INTC), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Micron Technology (MU), American Airlines Group (AAL) and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR).

Guess?'s stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Hennessy Advisors Inc. (2.15%), Portman Square Capital LLP (0.00%), Range Financial Group LLC (0.11%) and Denali Advisors LLC (0.03%). Insiders that own company stock include Anthony Chidoni, Carlos Alberini, Deborah Weinswig, Kathryn Low Anderson, Maurice Marciano and Paul Marciano.
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Shares of GES 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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