Currently, there are 421.42M common shares owned by the public and among those 406.78M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 8.33% and -1.63% over the past three months. GNW shares are trading -5.15% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 12.18% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $5.67 and touched a high of $7.90 over the same period. GNW has an average intraday trading volume of 5.41 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 -3.45%, -3.61%, and -3.73% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Genworth Financial Inc (NYSE: GNW) shares accounts for 88.96% of the company’s 421.42M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $2.76B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.00. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 9.84, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.67. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio at 0.18. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 5.34% over the week and 4.22% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Genworth Financial Inc (GNW) will achieve an EPS of 0.21 for the current quarter, 0 for the next quarter and 0.55 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.21 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.21. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.19 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 33.06%, and -33.33% over the next financial year.
Compass Point coverage for the Genworth Financial Inc (GNW) stock in a research note released on May 05, 2016 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $5.25. Compass Point was of a view on February 08, 2016 that the stock is Buy, while Goldman gave the stock Neutral rating on November 17, 2015, issuing a price target of $5. UBS on their part issued Sell rating on November 04, 2015.
