NASDAQ:GNTXGentex Stock Price, Forecast & News

Gentex's stock was trading at $25.16 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, GNTX stock has increased by 7.5% and is now trading at $27.05.
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7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Gentex in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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Gentex is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, October 16th 2020.
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Gentex Co. (NASDAQ:GNTX) released its quarterly earnings data on Friday, July, 24th. The auto parts company reported $0.02 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.12 by $0.10. The auto parts company earned $229.93 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $266.36 million. Gentex had a return on equity of 16.26% and a net margin of 18.60%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 50.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.42 earnings per share.
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Gentex announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, June 9th. Stockholders of record on Friday, July 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.12 per share on Wednesday, July 22nd. This represents a $0.48 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.77%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, July 9th.
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Gentex shares split before market open on Friday, January 2nd 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Friday, December 5th 2014. The newly issued shares were payable to shareholders after the market closes on Wednesday, December 31st 2014. An investor that had 100 shares of Gentex stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

7 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Gentex's shares. Their forecasts range from $19.00 to $32.00. On average, they anticipate Gentex's stock price to reach $29.14 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.7% from the stock's current price.
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News coverage about GNTX stock has been trending positive on Friday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Gentex earned a daily sentiment score of 2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the auto parts company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term.
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Gentex saw a drop in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 4,550,000 shares, a drop of 9.2% from the July 15th total of 5,010,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,980,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.3 days. Currently, 1.9% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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Gentex trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "GNTX."

Gentex's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Riverbridge Partners LLC (1.48%), Country Trust Bank (0.41%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.35%), Well Done LLC (0.31%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.30%) and First Trust Advisors LP (0.27%). Company insiders that own Gentex stock include Gary F Goode, Jae Kim, James A Hollars, James H Wallace, John A Mulder, Kathleen Starkoff, Kevin C Nash, Matthew Chiodo, Neil Boehm, Roger Perry Campbell, Scott P Ryan and Steven R Downing.
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GNTX stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., State of Michigan Retirement System, First Quadrant L P CA, Hancock Whitney Corp, BI Asset Management Fondsmaeglerselskab A S, Unigestion Holding SA, Raymond James & Associates, and Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Gentex company stock in the last year include Gary F Goode, James H Wallace, John A Mulder, Kevin C Nash, Neil Boehm, and Roger Perry Campbell.
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GNTX stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including UBS Group AG, NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., First Trust Advisors LP, NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, IFP Advisors Inc, Swiss National Bank, and Vident Investment Advisory LLC. Company insiders that have bought Gentex stock in the last two years include Kathleen Starkoff, Kevin C Nash, Matthew Chiodo, Neil Boehm, Scott P Ryan, and Steven R Downing.
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Shares of GNTX can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of GNTX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $27.05.

Gentex has a market capitalization of $6.62 billion and generates $1.86 billion in revenue each year. The auto parts company earns $424.68 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.66 on an earnings per share basis. Gentex employs 5,874 workers across the globe.

The official website for Gentex is www.gentex.com.

Gentex's mailing address is 600 NORTH CENTENNIAL STREET, ZEELAND MI, 49464. The auto parts company can be reached via phone at 616-772-1800 or via email at [email protected]