Do Gap, Inc. (NYSE: GPS) Fit In A Value Investing Philosophy?

Currently, there are 366.00M common shares owned by the public and among those 212.13M shares have been available to trade.

Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 82 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 41 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 1,473,120 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 41 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 1,299,372 shares.

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However, the script later moved the day high at 19.50, down -3.64%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -7.39% and 39.28% over the past three months. GPS shares are trading -8.94% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 37.97% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $7.22 and touched a high of $22.08 over the same period. GPS has an average intraday trading volume of 8.25 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -3.04%, -6.52%, and 42.76% respectively.

Institutional ownership of Gap, Inc. (NYSE: GPS) shares accounts for 59.22% of the company’s 366.00M shares outstanding.

It has a market capitalization of $7.06B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 2.24. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 187.22, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.10. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.07% over the week and 3.18% over the month.

Analysts forecast that Gap, Inc. (GPS) will achieve an EPS of $0.22 for the current quarter, $0.11 for the next quarter and $1.22 for 2025. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $0 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $0.34. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was -$0.75 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 392.42%, and 4.68% over the next financial year.

Looking at the support for the GPS, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Telsey Advisory Group stated their Market Perform rating for the stock in a research note on November 17, 2023, with the firm’s price target at $11-$17. Evercore ISI coverage for the Gap, Inc. (GPS) stock in a research note released on November 07, 2023 offered a Outperform rating with a price target of $17. Wells Fargo was of a view on October 25, 2023 that the stock is Overweight, while Barclays gave the stock Overweight rating on August 01, 2023, issuing a price target of $9- $13. Citigroup on their part issued Neutral rating on May 19, 2023.

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