Genworth Financial Inc (NYSE:GNW) does about 2.69M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1695420 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 2.78B USD. Its current market price is $6.28, marking a decrease of -1.72% compared to the previous close of $6.39. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $6.93 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $4.51.
Genworth Financial Inc (GNW) has a 20-day trading average at $6.25 and the current price is -9.38% off the 52-week high compared with 39.25% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $6.20 and its 200-day simple moving average is $5.96. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.85%, which decreases to 2.51% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 51.09 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $6.50, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 3.38% over the period.
Compass Point reiterated its price target at $7.50-$5.50.
Genworth Financial Inc (GNW) stock is down -0.32% over the week and 5.72% over the past month. Its price is -5.99% year-to-date and 27.13% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 12/30/2023, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of -$0.47 below consensus estimates by -$0.66. GNW’s earnings per share are forecast to grow by 400.00% this year and 15.00% over next year.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 3.38 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 446.82M with insiders holding 2.04% of the shares and institutional holders owning 85.28% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 0.18% and return on equity of 0.18%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 6280.00 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 6.79. The beta has a value of 1.06. Price to book ratio is 0.38 and price to sales ratio is 0.40.
