Currently, there are 1.25B common shares owned by the public and among those 1.24B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 10.23% and 13.62% over the past three months. GILD shares are trading 13.94% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 44.10% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $62.07 and touched a high of $106.69 over the same period. GILD has an average intraday trading volume of 7.05 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 7.88%, 11.77%, and 29.10% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Gilead Sciences, Inc (NASDAQ: GILD) shares accounts for 86.53% of the company’s 1.25B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $131.17B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.27. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 283.77, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.37. The company has a PEG of 11.91 and a Quick Ratio of 1.20 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 1.21. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.56% over the week and 2.15% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Gilead Sciences, Inc (GILD) will achieve an EPS of 1.75 for the current quarter, 1.93 for the next quarter and 8.24 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 1.35 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 1.35. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was -1.32 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 70.98%, and 5.41% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 23.82% over the next five years, compared to -38.21% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the GILD, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Deutsche Bank stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on Feb-19-25, with the firm’s price target at $120. DZ Bank coverage for the Gilead Sciences, Inc (GILD) stock in a research note released on February 13, 2025 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $108. Morgan Stanley was of a view on January 10, 2025 that the stock is Overweight, while BofA Securities gave the stock Buy rating on December 10, 2024, issuing a price target of $109. Wolfe Research on their part issued Outperform rating on November 15, 2024.
