Assessing Whether Goldman Sachs Group, Inc (NYSE: GS) Is Over- Or Undervalued

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc (GS) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $516.87, with 7.02 million shares of worth about $3.63 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 4.50% during that period and on April 09, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 11.82%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 310.65M shares, out of which, 309.25M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -8.21% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -2.74%. Year-to-date (YTD), GS shares are showing a performance of -9.74% which increased to 25.90% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $387.12 but also hit the highest price of $672.19 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Goldman Sachs Group, Inc shares is 3.00 million. The stock is currently trading -4.11% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -12.07% for SMA50 and it goes to -5.09% lower than SMA200.

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc (NYSE: GS) currently have 310.65M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 74.24% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $160.64B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.32. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 12.75, while it has posted earnings per share of $40.55 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.19 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 5.52. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for GS, volatility over the week remained 9.57% while standing at 4.63% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that Goldman Sachs Group, Inc (GS) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 12.27 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 10.38 and it is 50.22 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 11.35 which is 13.21 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 11.58 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 9.79% while it is estimated to increase by 12.31% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 10.70% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 14.03% 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 Morgan Stanley on April 07, 2025 offering an Equal-weight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $558 to it. Coverage by Daiwa Securities stated Goldman Sachs Group, Inc (GS) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on April 04, 2025, suggesting a price target of $560 for the stock. On March 19, 2025, Oppenheimer Downgrade their recommendations, while on February 27, 2025, Keefe Bruyette Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $660. Stock get a Neutral rating from UBS on January 06, 2025.

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