Gildan Activewear Inc (GIL) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $50.84, with 0.45 million shares of worth about $23.08 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 9.85% during that period and on July 03, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.38%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 151.53M shares, out of which, 149.28M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 5.11% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 9.15%. Year-to-date (YTD), GIL shares are showing a performance of 34.82% which increased to 8.06% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $37.16 but also hit the highest price of $55.39 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Gildan Activewear Inc shares is 749.47K. The stock is currently trading 5.72% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 6.88% for SMA50 and it goes to 6.19% higher than SMA200.
Gildan Activewear Inc (NYSE: GIL) currently have 151.53M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 74.19% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $7.69B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.16. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 19.72, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.58 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.88 and has Quick Ratio of 1.59 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.36. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for GIL, volatility over the week remained 2.10% while standing at 2.05% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Gildan Activewear Inc (GIL) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.96 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 1.02 and it is 3.86 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.93 which is 0.99 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 0.74 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 15.51% while it is estimated to increase by 11.23% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 10.48% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 14.09% 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 Barclays on April 28, 2025 offering an Overweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $51 to it. Coverage by UBS stated Gildan Activewear Inc (GIL) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on January 10, 2025, suggesting a price target of $60 for the stock. Stock get a Hold rating from Edward Jones on December 07, 2023.
