Are General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) Shares Worth Your Money In 2024?

In the last trading session, 8.06 million General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.43. With the company’s per share price at $55.59 changed hands at $0.09 or 0.16% during last session, the market valuation stood at $61.23B. GM’s last price was a discount, traded about -10.16% off its 52-week high of $61.24. The share price had its 52-week low at $28.33, which suggests the last value was 49.04% up since then. When we look at General Motors Company’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 14.82 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 13.40 million.

Analysts gave the General Motors Company (GM) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.18. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 3 out of 20 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 3 recommended GM as a Hold, 14 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.

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General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) trade information

Instantly GM was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -0.16%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 54.76%, with the 5-day performance at -0.16% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) is 6.97% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 34.72 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.71 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 56, meaning bulls need an upside of 0.73% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, GM’s forecast low is 34 with 98 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -76.29% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 38.84% for it to hit the projected low.

General Motors Company (GM) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the General Motors Company share is performing relatively much better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 23.56% over the past 6 months, a 34.77% in annual growth rate that is considerably higher than the industry average of -11.10%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 5.58%. The 2024 estimates are for General Motors Company earnings to increase by 34.92%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 15.96% per year.

GM Dividends

General Motors Company is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in January. The 0.81% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.45. It is important to note, however, that the 0.81% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 4.06 per year.

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

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.22% of General Motors Company shares while 86.87% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 87.07%. There are 86.87% institutions holding the General Motors Company stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 9.5453% of the shares, roughly 110.25 million GM shares worth $5.12 billion.

VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 8.2304% or 95.06 million shares worth $4.42 billion as of 2024-06-30.