Genuine Parts Co (NYSE: GPC) is 5.88% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $112.74 and a high of $164.45 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The GPC stock was last observed hovering at around $122.87 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.75%.
Currently trading at $123.62, the stock is 1.32% and 3.83% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.53 million and changing 0.61% at the moment leaves the stock -5.62% off its SMA200. GPC registered -17.15% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -13.71%.
The stock witnessed a 6.64% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -2.45%, and is 1.24% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.75% over the week and 2.10% over the month.
Genuine Parts Co (GPC) has around 63000 employees, a market worth around $17.16B and $23.49B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 19.11 and Fwd P/E is 14.05. Profit margin for the company is 3.85%. Distance from 52-week low is 9.65% and -24.83% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (9.48%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -3.17% this year
The shares outstanding are 138.78M, and float is at 138.27M with Short Float at 3.27%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 17.15 million shares valued at $2.37 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 12.2629 of the GPC Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 10.83 million shares valued at $1.5 billion to account for 7.7451 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 7.44 million shares representing 5.323 and valued at over $1.04 billion, while GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC holds 2.3344 of the shares totaling 3.26 million with a market value of $450.28 million.
Genuine Parts Co (GPC) Insider Activity
A total of 0 insider transactions have happened at Genuine Parts Co (GPC) in the last six months, with sales accounting for 0 and purchases happening 0 times.
Genuine Parts Co disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on Mar 05 ’25 that NEEDHAM WENDY B (Director) sold a total of 4,024 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on Mar 05 ’25 and was made at $123.28 per share for $0.5 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 7333.0 shares of the GPC stock.
Still, SEC filings show that on Dec 13 ’24, WENDY B NEEDHAM (Director) Proposed Sale 1,608 shares at an average price of $120.78 for $0.19 million. The insider now directly holds shares of Genuine Parts Co (GPC).
Genuine Parts Co (GPC): Who are the competitors?
One of the company’s main competitors (and peers) include Aptiv PLC (APTV) that is trading -16.69% down over the past 12 months.Cummins Inc. (CMI) lies in the list of competitors of the Genuine Parts Co and is 27.02% higher over the same period from GPCMistras Group Inc. (MG) is 10.19% up on the 1-year trading charts.
