Guess Inc (NYSE:GES) price on Thursday, April 10, fall -9.60% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $9.89.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $10.94, moving within a range at $9.34 and $10.525. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.488 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 15.50. Turning to its 52-week performance, $27.41 and $8.48 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, GES moved -1.59% over the past month.
Guess Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $508.91 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Apr-02. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.20, with its dividend yield at 12.13%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 630.61M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 628.91M and 633M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 6.53% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 3.11B, representing a 3.74% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that GES is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
4 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 3 recommend GES as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
GES’s current price about -11.06% and -12.81% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 44.42, while 7-day volatility ratio is 19.01% and 8.65% in the 30-day chart. Further, Guess Inc (GES) has a beta value of 1.27, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.03. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $27.5, forecast between a low of $25 and high of $37. Looking at the price targets, the low is -152.78% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -274.12%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -178.06% jump to $27.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Guess Inc (NYSE:GES), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.14 over the past 10 days and 1.64 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 51.46 million shares.
The 42.70% of Guess Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 68.59% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 9.42 million on 2025-03-14, giving us a short ratio of 6.11. The data shows that as of 2025-03-14 short interest in Guess Inc (GES) stood at 2599.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 8.68 million registered in 2025-02-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -29.66% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the GES stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
