Gilead Sciences - GILD Stock Forecast, Price & News

18 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Gilead Sciences in the last twelve months. There are currently 8 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" GILD shares.
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18 analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Gilead Sciences' shares. Their GILD share price forecasts range from $68.00 to $100.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $82.70 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.8%.
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Gilead Sciences' stock was trading at $72.61 at the beginning of the year. Since then, GILD shares have increased by 21.0% and is now trading at $87.83.
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Gilead Sciences saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 20,730,000 shares, an increase of 8.7% from the October 31st total of 19,070,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 8,130,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.5 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 7th 2023.
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Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 27th. The biopharmaceutical company reported $1.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.44 by $0.46. The biopharmaceutical company earned $7.04 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $6.12 billion. Gilead Sciences had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 38.51% and a net margin of 12.29%.

Gilead Sciences declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 27th. Investors of record on Thursday, December 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.73 per share on Thursday, December 29th. This represents a $2.92 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.32%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 14th.
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Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) pays an annual dividend of $2.92 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.40%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 7 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 110.19%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, GILD will have a dividend payout ratio of 43.00% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Gilead Sciences issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 3rd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $6.95-$7.15 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $6.54. The company issued revenue guidance of $25.90 billion-$26.20 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $25.25 billion.

107 employees have rated Gilead Sciences Chief Executive Officer Daniel O’Day on Glassdoor.com. Daniel O’Day has an approval rating of 92% among the company's employees. This puts Daniel O’Day in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Gilead Sciences trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "GILD."

Gilead Sciences' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (10.24%), Vanguard Group Inc. (8.94%), State Street Corp (4.72%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.23%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (0.80%) and UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. (0.79%). Insiders that own company stock include Brett A Pletcher, Diane E Wilfong, Diane E Wilfong, Gayle E Wilson, Javier Rodriguez, Johanna Mercier, John Francis Cogan, Merdad Parsey, Olsen Per Wold and Richard James Whitley.
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One share of GILD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $87.83.

Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) has a market capitalization of $110.16 billion and generates $27.31 billion in revenue each year. The biopharmaceutical company earns $6.23 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.65 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 14,400 workers across the globe.

Gilead Sciences' mailing address is 333 LAKESIDE DRIVE, FOSTER CITY CA, 94404. The official website for the company is www.gilead.com. The biopharmaceutical company can be reached via phone at (650) 574-3000, via email at investor_relations@gilead.com, or via fax at 650-578-9264.