Gap, Inc (NYSE:GAP) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 0.88% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $18.39.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $18.23, falling within a range of $18.23 and $18.6. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 2.136 whereas the PE ratio is 8.35 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $30.75, and the low was $16.99. On the whole, GAP has fluctuated by -9.01% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Gap, Inc currently standing at about $6.93 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Mar-05. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.61, with its dividend yield at 3.34%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 15.24B, with a low estimate of 3.39B and a high estimate of 3.43B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 3.41B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that GAP’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.91, with the price of GAP currently trading nearly -7.18% and -12.46% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 43.33, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 5.40% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 7.65%. Furthermore, Gap, Inc (GAP)’s beta value is 2.24, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.47.
A comparison of Gap, Inc (GAP) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. GAP showed an intraday change of 0.88% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -12.35%%.
Data on historical trading for Gap, Inc (NYSE:GAP) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 14.2 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 8.91 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 374.00 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 35.29% of Gap, Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 63.37% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 22.74 million shares as on 2025-03-31, resulting in a short ratio of 1.95. According to the data, the short interest in Gap, Inc (GAP) stood at 1095.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-31; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-28 reached 25.55 million. The stock has fallen by -22.18% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the GAP stock heading into the next quarter.
