With 2.39 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.09 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $48.3597 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $44.745. The 52-week range on GGAL shows that it touched its highest point at $74.00 and its lowest point at $23.05 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $103.41. With its current market cap of 6.05 billion, GGAL has annualized dividend of $0.29 while the current yield stands at 0.64%. GGAL paid its most recent dividend on 1724025600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1724025600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.83.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of GGAL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -17.28%, but this was down by -15.60% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -35.78% while six-month performance rose 5.01%. The stock gained 79.88% in the past year, while it has lost -26.72% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GGAL yields 10.49 with Next year EPS estimates of 9.66. For the next quarter, that number is 1.34. This implies an EPS growth rate of -43.31% for this year and 53.99% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 1.49% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 13.02%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 132.50 million GGAL shares are outstanding with a float of 132.40 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 3.21 million, which was 200.0 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Fabian Enrique Kon as the firm’s GM & CEO, Mr. Gonzalo Fernandez Covaro serves as its Chief Financial Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.28006 of GGAL’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for GGAL since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With GGAL analysts setting a high price target of 110.0 and a low target of 66.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 85.75. Based on these targets, GGAL could surge 140.86% to reach the target high and rise by 44.51% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 87.76% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $9612.04303 being high and $6273.79215 being low. For GGAL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $7937.61878.
