With 1.04 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.25 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $61.44 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $59.15. 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 $94.18. With its current market cap of 8.00 billion, GGAL has annualized dividend of $0.29 while the current yield stands at 0.48%. GGAL paid its most recent dividend on 1724025600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1724025600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.80.
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 -6.20%, but this was up by 10.89% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -11.67% while six-month performance rose 12.08%. The stock gained 112.05% in the past year, while it has lost -3.08% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GGAL yields 10.49 with Next year EPS estimates of 8.30. For the next quarter, that number is 1.17. This implies an EPS growth rate of -34.41% for this year and 36.72% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 5.59% 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 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 2.93 million, which was 182.0 higher than short shares on 1741910400. 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 0.28258 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 75.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 86.5. Based on these targets, GGAL could surge 82.12% to reach the target high and rise by 24.17% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 43.21% 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. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.32 and the low estimate is $1.32. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.32.
