In the last trading session, 1.43 million Geo Group, Inc (NYSE:GEO) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.85. With the company’s per share price at $28.51 changed hands at -$0.18 or -0.63% during last session, the market valuation stood at $3.96B. GEO’s last price was a discount, traded about -3.72% off its 52-week high of $29.57. The share price had its 52-week low at $9.77, which suggests the last value was 65.73% up since then. When we look at Geo Group, Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 3.13 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 3.15 million.
Analysts gave the Geo Group, Inc (GEO) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.50. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 16 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 4 recommended GEO as a Hold, 12 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
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Geo Group, Inc (NYSE:GEO) trade information
Instantly GEO was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -0.77%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 163.25%, with the 5-day performance at -0.77% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Geo Group, Inc (NYSE:GEO) is 79.20% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 8.8 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.81 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 14, meaning bulls need a downside of -103.64% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, GEO’s forecast low is 14 with 14 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a 50.89% surge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 50.89% for it to hit the projected low.
Geo Group, Inc (GEO) estimates and forecasts
Data shows that the Geo Group, Inc share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 96.08% over the past 6 months, a -12.63% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 19.30%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -9.73%. The 2024 estimates are for Geo Group, Inc earnings to decrease by -21.68%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 10.00% per year.
GEO Dividends
Geo Group, Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in January. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 11.18 per year.
Geo Group, Inc (NYSE:GEO)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 4.74% of Geo Group, Inc shares while 79.48% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 83.44%. There are 79.48% institutions holding the Geo Group, Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 16.0454% of the shares, roughly 19.66 million GEO shares worth $282.25 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 11.8811% or 14.55 million shares worth $209.0 million as of 2024-06-30.
