Genworth Financial Inc (GNW) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $7.01, with 4.86 million shares of worth about $34.05 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 4.32% during that period and on January 23, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.86%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 428.43M shares, out of which, 418.49M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 1.59% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 0.72%. Year-to-date (YTD), GNW shares are showing a performance of 0.29% which increased to 10.05% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $5.67 but also hit the highest price of $7.90 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Genworth Financial Inc shares is 3.16 million. The stock is currently trading 1.32% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -3.19% for SMA50 and it goes to 4.87% higher than SMA200.
Genworth Financial Inc (NYSE: GNW) currently have 428.43M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 84.93% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $2.99B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.99. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 34.30, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.20 in the same period. It has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.19. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for GNW, volatility over the week remained 1.53% while standing at 2.06% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Genworth Financial Inc (GNW) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.12 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0 and it is 0.67 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.12 which is 0.12 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 -0.51 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 816.67% while it is estimated to increase by 7.27% in next year.
Coverage by Compass Point stated Genworth Financial Inc (GNW) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on May 05, 2016, suggesting a price target of $5.25 for the stock. On February 08, 2016, Compass Point Reiterated their recommendations, while on November 17, 2015, Goldman Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $5. Stock get a Sell rating from UBS on November 04, 2015.
