Estimating Price Trends For GFL Environmental Inc. (NYSE: GFL)

GFL Environmental Inc. (NYSE:GFL) does about 1.20M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1096971 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 12.75B USD. Its current market price is $34.35, marking an increase of 2.02% compared to the previous close of $33.67. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $39.06 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $26.87.

GFL Environmental Inc. (GFL) has a 20-day trading average at $34.48 and the current price is -12.05% off the 52-week high compared with 27.84% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $34.96 and its 200-day simple moving average is $33.29. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.43%, which decreases to 2.33% 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 48.31 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $41.15, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 16.52% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on January 31, 2024 when UBS initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $44. BofA Securities downgraded the stock to “Neutral” from Buy on January 19, 2024 at a price target of $35.

GFL Environmental Inc. (GFL) stock is down -0.43% over the week and -1.63% over the past month. Its price is -0.46% year-to-date and 0.59% 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 $0.04 below consensus estimates by -$0.12. GFL’s earnings per share are forecast to grow by 18.30% this year and 36.90% over next year. Expected sales for next quarter are $1.52 billion, which analysts say will come at $5.91 billion for the current fiscal year and next year at $6.32 billion. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $1.31 billion.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 16.52 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 359.35M with insiders holding 3.16% of the shares and institutional holders owning 79.33% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -0.13% and return on equity of 0.72%. The forward price to earnings ratio is 31.06. The beta has a value of 1.13. Price to book ratio is 2.34 and price to sales ratio is 2.29.