NYSE:GILGildan Activewear Stock Price, Forecast & News

Gildan Activewear's stock was trading at $19.29 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, GIL stock has decreased by 5.1% and is now trading at $18.31.
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13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Gildan Activewear in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Gildan Activewear is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 29th 2020.
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Gildan Activewear Inc (NYSE:GIL) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July, 30th. The textile maker reported ($0.99) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.21) by $0.78. The textile maker had revenue of $229.70 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $241.40 million. Gildan Activewear had a negative net margin of 10.14% and a positive return on equity of 0.37%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 71.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.56 EPS.
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Gildan Activewear announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 21st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, March 12th will be paid a dividend of $0.154 per share on Monday, April 6th. This represents a $0.62 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.36%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 11th. This is a boost from Gildan Activewear's previous quarterly dividend of $0.13.
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Gildan Activewear shares split on Monday, March 30th 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Wednesday, February 4th 2015. The newly minted shares were issued to shareholders after the market closes on Friday, March 27th 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of Gildan Activewear stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Gildan Activewear's shares. Their forecasts range from $13.00 to $42.00. On average, they anticipate Gildan Activewear's share price to reach $22.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 22.9% from the stock's current price.
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News articles about GIL stock have been trending very positive on Saturday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of media 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 closest to five being the most favorable. Gildan Activewear earned a news sentiment score of 4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the textile maker a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term.
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Gildan Activewear saw a increase in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 6,100,000 shares, an increase of 10.7% from the July 15th total of 5,510,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 990,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 6.2 days. Approximately 3.1% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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Gildan Activewear trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GIL."

Gildan Activewear's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Pzena Investment Management LLC (9.41%), Marathon Asset Management LLP (1.16%), Cardinal Capital Management Inc. (1.14%), Swiss National Bank (0.43%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.41%) and Galibier Capital Management Ltd. (0.32%).

GIL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cardinal Capital Management Inc., Marathon Asset Management LLP, Lapides Asset Management LLC, North Point Portfolio Managers Corp OH, Andra AP fonden, Mn Services Vermogensbeheer B.V., UBS Group AG, and Great Lakes Advisors LLC.

GIL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pzena Investment Management LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Galibier Capital Management Ltd., Heritage Wealth Advisors, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank, Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A., Swiss National Bank, and GWM Advisors LLC.

Shares of GIL 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 GIL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $18.31.

Gildan Activewear has a market capitalization of $3.63 billion and generates $2.82 billion in revenue each year. The textile maker earns $259.81 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.66 on an earnings per share basis. Gildan Activewear employs 53,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Gildan Activewear is www.gildan.com.

Gildan Activewear's mailing address is 600 BOULEVARD DE MAISONNEUVE OUEST 33RD FLOOR, MONTREAL A8, H3A 3J2. The textile maker can be reached via phone at 514-735-2023 or via email at [email protected]