With 1.55 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.7 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Life company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $119.42 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $111.13. The 52-week range on GL shows that it touched its highest point at $133.76 and its lowest point at $75.48 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $141.92. With its current market cap of 9.80 billion, GL has annualized dividend of $0.99 while the current yield stands at 0.84%. GL paid its most recent dividend on 1743638400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1751500800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.56.
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 GL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -5.00%, but this was down by -10.91% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -3.74% while six-month performance rose 11.60%. The stock gained 50.75% in the past year, while it has gained 5.56% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GL yields 11.95 with Next year EPS estimates of 15.11. For the next quarter, that number is 3.40. This implies an EPS growth rate of 10.54% for this year and 10.54% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 9.89% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 11.82%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 83.98 million GL shares are outstanding with a float of 82.58 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 1.26 million, which was 152.0 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. Frank Martin Svoboda as the firm’s Co-Chairman & Co-CEO, Mr. James Matthew Darden serves as its Co-Chairman & Co-CEO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.85727 of GL’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 GL since 8 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 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 GL analysts setting a high price target of 188.0 and a low target of 111.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 140.72726. Based on these targets, GL could surge 59.7% to reach the target high and fall by -5.71% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 19.54% 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 $12.33525 being high and $12.25535 being low. For GL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $12.30529. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $3.8 and the low estimate is $3.44. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $3.52.
