NYSE:GDOT - Green Dot Stock Price, Forecast & News

Green Dot trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GDOT."

Green Dot Co. (NYSE:GDOT) announced its earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The financial services provider reported $0.20 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($0.12) by $0.32. The financial services provider had revenue of $240.40 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $232.94 million. Green Dot had a return on equity of 14.94% and a net margin of 10.25%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 1.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.59 earnings per share. View Green Dot's Earnings History.

Green Dot is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 19th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Green Dot.

Green Dot issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, December, 18th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of approx $2.73 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.73. The company issued revenue guidance of low end of $1.06-1.08 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.08 billion.

13 brokers have issued 1 year price objectives for Green Dot's stock. Their forecasts range from $21.00 to $75.00. On average, they expect Green Dot's share price to reach $36.64 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 26.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Green Dot.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Green Dot in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Green Dot.

Media stories about GDOT stock have been trending negative on Saturday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Green Dot earned a news sentiment score of -2.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Green Dot.

Green Dot saw a increase in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,650,000 shares, an increase of 17.4% from the December 15th total of 3,110,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 829,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.4 days. Approximately 7.8% of the company's shares are sold short. View Green Dot's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Green Dot include American Express (AXP), Capital One Financial (COF), Discover Financial Services (DFS), Credit Acceptance (CACC), SLM (SLM), FirstCash (FCFS), Nelnet (NNI), Pra Group (PRAA), Encore Capital Group (ECPG), World Acceptance (WRLD), EZCORP (EZPW), Regional Management (RM), Nicholas Financial (NICK) and Asta Funding (ASFI).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Green Dot investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Netflix (NFLX), Alibaba Group (BABA), FireEye (FEYE), salesforce.com (CRM), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Applied Materials (AMAT), Paypal (PYPL) and AbbVie (ABBV).

Green Dot's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Smith Graham & Co. Investment Advisors LP (0.82%), AMI Asset Management Corp (0.64%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.19%), Scout Investments Inc. (0.19%), Diligent Investors LLC (0.09%) and Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.05%). Company insiders that own Green Dot stock include Brett Narlinger, George W Gresham, Glinda Bridgforth-Hodges, Jess Unruh, John C Ricci, Kenneth C Aldrich, Konrad Alt, Kuan Archer, Mark L Shifke, Mary Dent, Rajeev V Date and Steven W Streit. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Green Dot.

GDOT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including AMI Asset Management Corp, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Scout Investments Inc., Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. Company insiders that have sold Green Dot company stock in the last year include Brett Narlinger, George W Gresham, Glinda Bridgforth-Hodges, Jess Unruh, John C Ricci, Konrad Alt, Mark L Shifke and Steven W Streit. View Insider Buying and Selling for Green Dot.

GDOT stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Smith Graham & Co. Investment Advisors LP, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Diligent Investors LLC and FNY Investment Advisers LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Green Dot.

Shares of GDOT 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 GDOT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $29.00.

Green Dot has a market capitalization of $1.49 billion and generates $1.04 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $118.70 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.53 on an earnings per share basis. Green Dot employs 1,100 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Green Dot.

The official website for Green Dot is http://www.greendot.com/.

Green Dot's mailing address is 3465 EAST FOOTHILL BOULEVARD, PASADENA CA, 91107. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 626-765-2000 or via email at [email protected]