During the last session, Geo Group, Inc (NYSE:GEO)’s traded shares were 2.94 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.78. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $29.64, reflecting an intraday gain of 2.10% or $0.61. The 52-week high for the GEO share is $36.46, that puts it down -23.01 from that peak though still a striking 60.36% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $11.75. The company’s market capitalization is $4.23B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 2.8 million shares, and the average trade volume was 2.89 million shares over the past three months.
Geo Group, Inc (GEO) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.00. GEO has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 16 analysts who have looked at this stock. 4 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 12 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 0.19.
Geo Group, Inc (NYSE:GEO) trade information
Geo Group, Inc (GEO) registered a 2.10% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 2.10% in intraday trading to $29.64, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 5.22%, and it has moved by 14.71% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 102.74%. The short interest in Geo Group, Inc (NYSE:GEO) is 10.68 million shares and it means that shorts have 3.53 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $35, which implies an increase of 15.31% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $35 and $35 respectively. As a result, GEO is trading at a discount of -18.08% off the target high and -18.08% off the low.
Geo Group, Inc (GEO) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 9.86% compared to the previous financial year.
As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 611.81M as predicted by 5 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 5 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 635.62M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 605.67M and 607.18M respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 1.01% and then jump by 4.68% in the coming quarter.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -30.73%. While earnings are projected to return 57.62% in 2025.
GEO Dividends
Geo Group, Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Feb-26. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 11.18%.
Geo Group, Inc (NYSE:GEO)’s Major holders
Geo Group, Inc insiders own 4.67% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 86.25%, with the float percentage being 90.47%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 363.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 19.66 million shares (or 15.0593% of all shares), a total value of $282.25 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 14.55 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 11.8811% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $209.0 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Geo Group, Inc (GEO) shares are iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Feb 28, 2025 indicates that iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF owns about 8.67 shares. This amounts to just over 6.15 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $257.08 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 4.09, or about 2.90% of the stock, which is worth about $121.22 million.
