NYSE:GEO - The GEO Group Stock Price, Forecast & News

The GEO Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GEO."

The GEO Group declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, February 3rd. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 14th will be paid a dividend of $0.48 per share on Friday, February 21st. This represents a $1.92 annualized dividend and a yield of 11.90%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 13th. View The GEO Group's Dividend History.

The GEO Group Inc (NYSE:GEO) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 12th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.38 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.67 by $0.29. The real estate investment trust earned $621.71 million during the quarter. The GEO Group had a net margin of 6.72% and a return on equity of 18.66%. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.31 earnings per share. View The GEO Group's Earnings History.

The GEO Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for The GEO Group.

The GEO Group updated its FY 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 12th. The company provided EPS guidance of 2.57-2.67 for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.48-2.48 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.58 billion.

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

Media headlines about GEO stock have trended neutral recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. The GEO Group earned a daily sentiment score of 0.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for The GEO Group.

The GEO Group saw a decrease in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,390,000 shares, a decrease of 11.0% from the January 15th total of 3,810,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,250,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.7 days. Currently, 2.9% of the company's stock are sold short. View The GEO Group's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other The GEO Group investors own include AT&T (T), Corecivic (CXW), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), Occidental Petroleum (OXY), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Altria Group (MO), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), Main Street Capital (MAIN), New Residential Investment (NRZ) and Verizon Communications (VZ).

The GEO Group's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (4.38%), Artemis Investment Management LLP (4.16%), State Street Corp (3.10%), Prudential Financial Inc. (2.90%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.78%) and Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC (1.67%). Company insiders that own The GEO Group stock include Anne N Foreman, Brian Evans, Christopher C Wheeler, David J Venturella, George C Zoley, John J Bulfin, Richard H Glanton and Shayn P March. View Institutional Ownership Trends for The GEO Group.

GEO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC, Prudential Financial Inc., Panagora Asset Management Inc., Guggenheim Capital LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Artemis Investment Management LLP and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. Company insiders that have sold The GEO Group company stock in the last year include Anne N Foreman, Brian Evans and Richard H Glanton. View Insider Buying and Selling for The GEO Group.

GEO stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Standard Life Aberdeen plc, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc., Jane Street Group LLC, Advisors Asset Management Inc., Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Driehaus Capital Management LLC and Virtus ETF Advisers LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for The GEO Group.

Shares of GEO 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 GEO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $16.14.

The GEO Group has a market capitalization of $1.96 billion and generates $2.48 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $166.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.75 on an earnings per share basis. The GEO Group employs 22,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About The GEO Group.

The official website for The GEO Group is http://www.geogroup.com/.

The GEO Group's mailing address is ONE PARK PLACE 621 NORTHWEST 53RD STREET SUITE 700, BOCA RATON FL, 33487. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at 561-893-0101 or via email at [email protected]