Geo Group, Inc (NYSE:GEO) has a beta value of 0.81 and has seen 0.54 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $4.24B, closed the recent trade at $29.69 per share which meant it lost -$0.24 on the day or -0.79% during that session. The GEO stock price is -22.8% off its 52-week high price of $36.46 and 60.42% above the 52-week low of $11.75. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 2.68 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 2.94 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Geo Group, Inc (GEO) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.00. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 4 out of 16 have rated it as a Hold, with 12 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 0.19.
Geo Group, Inc (NYSE:GEO) trade information
Sporting -0.79% in the red today, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the GEO stock price touched $29.69 or saw a rise of 3.29%. Year-to-date, Geo Group, Inc shares have moved 6.13%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 0.19%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Geo Group, Inc (NYSE:GEO) have changed 14.65%. Short interest in the company has seen 10.68 million shares shorted with days to cover at 3.53.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $35, which means that the shares’ value could jump 15.17% from the levels at last check today. The projected low price target is $35.0 while the price target rests at a high of $35.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -17.88% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -17.88% from the levels at last check today.
Geo Group, Inc (GEO) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 131.09% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 9.86%.
5 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 611.81M for the current quarter. 5 have an estimated revenue figure of 635.62M for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 605.67M and 607.18M respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 1.01% for the current quarter and 9.86% for the next. If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -30.73% over the past 5 years.
GEO Dividends
Geo Group, Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Feb-26 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.
Geo Group, Inc (NYSE:GEO)’s Major holders
Insiders own 4.67% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 86.24% with a share float percentage of 90.47%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Geo Group, Inc having a total of 362.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are BLACKROCK INC. with over 19.66 million shares worth more than $282.25 million. As of 2024-06-30, BLACKROCK INC. held 15.0593% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, with the holding of over 14.55 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $209.0 million and represent 11.8811% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund. As of Feb 28, 2025, the former fund manager holds about 6.15% shares in the company for having 8.67 shares of worth $258.95 million while later fund manager owns 4.09 shares of worth $122.1 million as of Dec 31, 2024, which makes it owner of about 2.90% of company’s outstanding stock.
