In last trading session, Gildan Activewear Inc (NYSE:GIL) saw 0.8 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.18. Company’s recent per share price level of $48.78 trading at $0.41 or 0.85% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $7.38B. That closing price of GIL’s stock is at a discount of -13.55% from its 52-week high price of $55.39 and is indicating a premium of 23.82% from its 52-week low price of $37.16. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.43 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 745.20K if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Gildan Activewear Inc (GIL), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.47. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 5 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 4 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Gildan Activewear Inc (NYSE:GIL) trade information
Upright in the green during last session for gaining 0.85%, in the last five days GIL remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Friday, 06/27/25 when the stock touched $48.78 price level, adding 1.77% to its value on the day. Gildan Activewear Inc’s shares saw a change of 28.95% in year-to-date performance and have moved 4.79% in past 5-day. Gildan Activewear Inc (NYSE:GIL) showed a performance of -0.65% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 2.02 million shares which calculate 2.67 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 51 to the stock, which implies a rise of 4.35% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 51 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 51. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -4.55% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -4.55% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 14.09% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 15.51% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 10.48%.
GIL Dividends
Gildan Activewear Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-29 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 1.77%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.86 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 1.46%.
Gildan Activewear Inc (NYSE:GIL)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.22% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 82.55 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 82.73%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 82.55% institutions for Gildan Activewear Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. JARISLOWSKY, FRASER LTD is the top institutional holder at GIL for having 11.03 million shares of worth $418.34 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 6.5663 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is COOKE & BIELER LP, which was holding about 10.25 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 6.1027 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $388.79 million.
