Genworth Financial Inc (NYSE: GNW) – Not A Clear Buying Opportunity?

Genworth Financial Inc (GNW) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $7.73, with 4.14 million shares of worth about $32.03 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 11.06% during that period and on June 25, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -1.78%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 415.88M shares, out of which, 405.29M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 13.01% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 13.84%. Year-to-date (YTD), GNW shares are showing a performance of 27.56% which increased to 10.59% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $5.95 but also hit the highest price of $8.00 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Genworth Financial Inc shares is 7.60 million. The stock is currently trading 7.70% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 10.56% for SMA50 and it goes to 10.35% higher than SMA200.

Genworth Financial Inc (NYSE: GNW) currently have 415.88M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 87.51% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $3.20B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.06. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 15.69, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.49 in the same period. Its PEG reads 14.80 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.17. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for GNW, volatility over the week remained 1.36% while standing at 3.48% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -25.81% while it is estimated to increase by 13.04% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 1.06% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -5.65% 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 Keefe Bruyette on June 18, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $9 to it. On May 05, 2016, Compass Point Reiterated their recommendations, while on February 08, 2016, Compass Point Reiterated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $5.50. Stock get a Neutral rating from Goldman on November 17, 2015.

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