General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) Surprises Investors, Looks Strong In The Future

In the latest trading session,, 2.77 million General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.35. With the company’s most recent per share price at $49.83 changed hands at -$0.54 or -1.06% at last look, the market valuation stands at $47.91B. GM’s current price is a discount, trading about -22.9% off its 52-week high of $61.24. The share price had its 52-week low at $38.96, which suggests the last value was 21.81% up since then.

Analysts gave the General Motors Company (GM) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.28. 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.

General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) trade information

Instantly GM was in red as seen in intraday trades today. With action 0.45%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -6.45%, with the 5-day performance at 0.45% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) is 11.81% up.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 50, meaning bulls need an upside of 0.34% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, GM’s forecast low is 36 with 73 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -46.5% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 27.75% for it to hit the projected low.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 6.84%. The 2025 estimates are for General Motors Company earnings to decrease by -13.92%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at -0.88% per year.

GM Dividends

General Motors Company is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in June. The 0.96% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.48. It is important to note, however, that the 0.96% 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.

VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 8.3681% or 95.06 million shares worth $4.42 billion as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . With 34.44 shares estimated at $1.72 billion under it, the former controlled 3.58% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held about 3.10% of the shares, roughly 29.76 shares worth around $1.49 billion.