Geo Group, Inc (GEO) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $28.00, with 3.56 million shares of worth about $99.62 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 122.93% during that period and on December 19, 2024 the price saw a gain of about 6.18%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 139.72M shares, out of which, 132.64M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 0.83% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -1.41%. Year-to-date (YTD), GEO shares are showing a performance of 158.54% which increased to 160.47% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $10.46 but also hit the highest price of $29.86 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Geo Group, Inc shares is 3.31 million. The stock is currently trading 0.02% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 23.86% for SMA50 and it goes to 73.97% higher than SMA200.
Geo Group, Inc (NYSE: GEO) currently have 139.72M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 77.93% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $3.92B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.87. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 110.85, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.25 in the same period. Its PEG reads 11.08 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.41. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for GEO, volatility over the week remained 5.91% while standing at 5.03% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -10.82% while it is estimated to increase by 83.36% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 10.00% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -9.73% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Coverage by Northland Capital stated Geo Group, Inc (GEO) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on October 02, 2023, suggesting a price target of $14 for the stock. On November 29, 2022, Wedbush Upgrade their recommendations, while on June 08, 2021, Wedbush Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $7. Stock get an Outperform rating from Noble Capital Markets on June 29, 2020.
