Geo Group, Inc (GEO) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $34.00, with 2.77 million shares of worth about $94.18 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 97.44% during that period and on January 16, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.44%. 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 9.43% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 24.04%. Year-to-date (YTD), GEO shares are showing a performance of 21.52% which increased to 216.57% 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 $34.12 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Geo Group, Inc shares is 3.57 million. The stock is currently trading 16.32% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 23.60% for SMA50 and it goes to 94.57% higher than SMA200.
Geo Group, Inc (NYSE: GEO) currently have 139.72M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 77.92% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $4.75B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.85. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 134.60, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.25 in the same period. Its PEG reads 13.46 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 4.16% while standing at 5.06% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Geo Group, Inc (GEO) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.23 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.28 and it is 1.68 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.2 which is 0.29 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 0.29 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -10.82% while it is estimated to increase by 86.66% 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.
