Genworth Financial Inc. (NYSE:GNW) finished Thursday with a subtraction of -$0.2 to close at $6.05, a downside of -3.20 percent. An average of 2,563,580 shares of common stock have been traded in the last five days. There was a gain of $0.06 in the past week, and it reached a new high 30 times over the past 12 months. The last 20 days have seen an average of 2,070,400 shares traded, while the 50-day average volume stands at 3,017,260.
GNW stock has increased by 7.65% in the last month. The company shares reached their 1-month lowest point of $5.48 on 07/14/23. With the stock rallying to its 52-week high on 02/15/23, shares of the company touched a low of $3.44 and a high of $6.40 in 52 weeks. It has reached a new high 14 times so far this year and achieved 14.37% or $0.76 in price. In spite of this, the price is down -5.47% from the 52-week high.
Insider Transactions
GNW stock investors should be aware that Genworth Financial Inc. (GNW) stock had its last reported insider trading activity 81 days ago on May 22. In this transaction, the insider spent $690,500. President & CEO, Enact, Gupta Rohit, disposed of 90,691 shares at a price of $6.25 on Feb 17. The insider now owns more than $567,127 worth of shares. Prior to that, EVP, CFO & CIO Sheehan Daniel J IV went on to Sale 350,000 shares at $6.25 each on Feb 14. An amount of $2,188,200 was transacted.
Valuation Metrics
Genworth Financial Inc. (GNW) has a trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 5.91. The stock’s beta is 0.99. Other valuation ratios to consider include the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio at 0.38, the price-to-book (PB) ratio at 0.40, and the price-to-cash flow ratio at 2.43.
Financial Health
Further, the company has a long term debt to equity ratio of 0.22 and a total debt to equity ratio of 0.22 for the quarter ending June 29. Its gross profit as reported stood at $978.0 million compared to revenue of $7.51 billion.
For investors, determining the potential profitability of the investment also depends on the performance of the company’s management. In the past 12 months, Genworth Financial Inc.’s return on assets was 0.60%.
Earnings Surprise
For the three-month period that ended June 29, Genworth Financial Inc. had $1.6 billion in total debt. In the quarter under review, the net income was up than the previous quarter. The company posted a net income of $137.0 million in the quarter, while revenues were shrunk -32.12%. The analyst consensus anticipated Genworth Financial Inc.’s latest quarter earnings to come in at $0.17 per share, but it turned out to be $0.29, a 70.60% surprise. For the quarter, EBITDA amounted to $281.0 million. Shareholders own equity worth $463.09 million.
Technical Picture
From a technical analysis perspective, let’s take a brief look at Genworth Financial Inc. (GNW) price momentum. RSI 9-day as of the close on 10 August was 59.42%, suggesting the stock is Neutral, with historical volatility in this time frame at 27.62%.
As of today, GNW’s price is $6.17 +1.00% or $0.06 from its 5-day moving average. GNW is currently trading +6.33% higher than its 20-day SMA and +25.00% higher than its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is +6.89% above the SMA50 and +35.96% above the SMA200.
The stochastic %K and %D were 77.52% and 86.22%, respectively, and the average true range (ATR) was 0.18. With the 14-day stochastic at 57.14% and the average true range at 0.18, the RSI (14) stands at 61.44%. The stock has reached 0.09 on the 9-day MACD Oscillator while the 14-day reading was at 0.23.
Analyst Ratings
The consensus rating for Genworth Financial Inc. (GNW) among analysts is Hold. According to current brokerage recommendations, 0 brokerage firms advise that investors sell GNW, while 2 suggest investors hold. There are 0 analysts who rate the stock as underweight. The stock is rated overweight by 0 analysts, while 0 others rate it as a “buy”.
What is GNW’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts predict a range of price targets between $6.00 and $6.00, with a median target of $6.00. Taking a look at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts for Genworth Financial Inc. (GNW) stock is $6.00.
