After Jumping 5.88% During The Past Week, Should You Still Buy General Motors Company (NYSE: GM)?

General Motors Company (NYSE:GM)’s traded shares stood at 8.57 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.43. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $52.07, to imply a decrease of -1.23% or -$0.65 in intraday trading. The GM share’s 52-week high remains $54.29, putting it -4.26% down since that peak but still an impressive 49.49% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $26.30. The company has a valuation of $57.26B, with an average of 13.85 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 13.53 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for General Motors Company (GM), translating to a mean rating of 2.21. Of 20 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 3 analyst(s) give GM a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 3 advise Hold as 14 recommend it as a Buy.

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General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) trade information

After registering a -1.23% downside in the last session, General Motors Company (GM) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 5.88%, and 13.67% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 44.96%. Short interest in General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) saw shorts transact 30.67 million shares and set a 2.17 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $34 and $98 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, GM has been trading -88.21% off suggested target high and 34.7% from its likely low.

General Motors Company (GM) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing General Motors Company share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has outperformed competitors. General Motors Company (GM) shares are 13.59% up over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate higher than industry average at 32.42% against -6.60%.

An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 5.58% for the past 5-year period. While 2024 is set for a 33.87% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 9.77% annually.

GM Dividends

General Motors Company has its next earnings report out on 2025-Jan-28. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. General Motors Company has a forward dividend ratio of 0.45, with the share yield ticking at 0.86% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 4.06%.

General Motors Company (NYSE:GM)’s Major holders

General Motors Company insiders hold 0.24% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 90.16% of the shares at 90.39% float percentage. In total, 90.16% institutions holds shares in the company, led by BLACKROCK INC.. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 110.25 million shares (or 9.5453% of shares), all amounting to roughly $5.12 billion.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 95.06 million shares, or about 8.2304% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $4.42 billion.