Currently, there are 140.18M common shares owned by the public and among those 134.47M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -3.92% and 6.34% over the past three months. GEO shares are trading 8.54% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 102.74% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $11.75 and touched a high of $36.46 over the same period. GEO has an average intraday trading volume of 2.91 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 2.33%, 7.72%, and 33.14% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Geo Group, Inc (NYSE: GEO) shares accounts for 84.07% of the company’s 140.18M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $4.34B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.83. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 159.26, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.19. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio at 1.36. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.48% over the week and 5.96% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 57.62%, and 100.88% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the GEO, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Noble Capital Markets stated their Outperform rating for the stock in a research note on March 05, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $32. Northland Capital was of a view on October 02, 2023 that the stock is Outperform, while Wedbush gave the stock Outperform rating on November 29, 2022, issuing a price target of $10- $14. Wedbush on their part issued Neutral rating on June 08, 2021.
