Geo Group, Inc (NYSE: GEO) is 8.54% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $11.75 and a high of $36.46 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 GEO stock was last observed hovering at around $31.36 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.99%.
Currently trading at $30.37, the stock is 2.33% and 7.72% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 6.3 million and changing -3.16% at the moment leaves the stock 33.14% off its SMA200. GEO registered 102.74% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 100.07%.
The stock witnessed a 12.44% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 6.34%, and is -3.92% down 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 3.48% over the week and 5.96% over the month.
Geo Group, Inc (GEO) has around 16500 employees, a market worth around $4.34B and $2.42B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 159.26 and Fwd P/E is 12.79. Profit margin for the company is 1.13%. Distance from 52-week low is 158.47% and -16.70% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (0.88%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 57.62% this year.
Geo Group, Inc (GEO) Top Institutional Holders
The shares outstanding are 140.18M, and float is at 134.47M with Short Float at 7.71%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 19.66 million shares valued at $282.25 million. The investor’s holdings represent 15.0593% of the GEO Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 14.55 million shares valued at $209.0 million to account for 11.151 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FMR LLC which holds 9.37 million shares representing 7.1802% and valued at over $134.57 million, while GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC holds 4.1563 of the shares totaling 5.42 million with a market value of $77.9 million.
Geo Group, Inc (GEO) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by March Shayn P., the company’s EVP of Finance and Treasurer. SEC filings show that March Shayn P. sold 7,500 shares of the company’s common stock on Mar 27 ’25 at a price of $30.00 per share for a total of $0.23 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 67469.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Mar 13 ’25, Mannarino Nicole (Chief Compliance Officer) disposed off 646 shares at an average price of $25.43 for $16428.0. The insider now directly holds 0 shares of Geo Group, Inc (GEO).
