Is Gannett Co Inc. (NYSE:GCI) A Better Buy Than Others After A 65.08% Rise In This Year?

In last trading session, Gannett Co Inc. (NYSE:GCI) saw 1.11 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 2.48. Company’s recent per share price level of $4.87 trading at -$0.12 or -2.40% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $718.81M. That closing price of GCI’s stock is at a discount of -21.36% from its 52-week high price of $5.91 and is indicating a premium of 65.91% from its 52-week low price of $1.66. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 2.03 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.59 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Gannett Co Inc. (GCI), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 3.00. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 2 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 1 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of -0.13 in the current quarter.

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Gannett Co Inc. (NYSE:GCI) trade information

Upright in the red during last session for losing -2.40%, in the last five days GCI remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 08/28/24 when the stock touched $4.87 price level, adding 13.04% to its value on the day. Gannett Co Inc.’s shares saw a change of 111.74% in year-to-date performance and have moved -15.74% in past 5-day. Gannett Co Inc. (NYSE:GCI) showed a performance of 20.54% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 13.92 million shares which calculate 9.28 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 5.55 to the stock, which implies a rise of 12.25% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 5.1 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 6. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -4.72% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -4.72% for stock’s current value.

Gannett Co Inc. (GCI) estimates and forecasts

This year revenue growth is estimated to fall -3.40% from the last financial year’s standing.

3 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 633.85M for the same. And 3 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 664.61M in the next quarter. Company posted 652.87M and 669.4M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.

Gannett Co Inc. (NYSE:GCI)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 9.46% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 74.77 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 82.58%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 74.77% institutions for Gannett Co Inc. that are currently holding shares of the company. APOLLO MANAGEMENT HOLDINGS, L.P. is the top institutional holder at GCI for having 13.17 million shares of worth $60.69 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 9.3524 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is ALTA FUNDAMENTAL ADVISERS LLC, which was holding about 13.15 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 9.3387 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $60.61 million.