General Motors Company (NYSE: GM): To Buy Or Not To Buy, That Is The Question

General Motors Company (GM) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $47.80, with 6.83 million shares of worth about $326.44 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 5.47% during that period and on February 19, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -0.69%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 1.00B shares, out of which, 992.61M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 2.36% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -6.22%. Year-to-date (YTD), GM shares are showing a performance of -10.27% which increased to 22.60% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $38.12 but also hit the highest price of $61.24 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for General Motors Company shares is 11.23 million. The stock is currently trading -3.17% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -6.36% for SMA50 and it goes to -1.97% lower than SMA200.

General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) currently have 1.00B outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 87.23% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $47.56B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.44. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 7.78, while it has posted earnings per share of $6.14 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.05 and has Quick Ratio of 0.98 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 2.08. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for GM, volatility over the week remained 2.39% while standing at 3.13% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 6.34% while it is estimated to increase by 6.75% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 7.40% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 6.84% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Deutsche Bank on January 21, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $60 to it. Coverage by HSBC Securities stated General Motors Company (GM) stock as a Hold in their note to investors on December 11, 2024, suggesting a price target of $58 for the stock. On December 10, 2024, Morgan Stanley Upgrade their recommendations, while on October 11, 2024, DZ Bank Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $49. Stock get an Underweight rating from Morgan Stanley on September 25, 2024.

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