NYSE:GMS - GMS Stock Price, News & Analysis

GMS trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GMS."

GMS Inc (NYSE:GMS) posted its earnings results on Thursday, June, 27th. The company reported $0.68 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.71 by $0.03. The company earned $780.10 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $784.40 million. GMS had a net margin of 1.80% and a return on equity of 18.94%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 22.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.56 EPS. View GMS's Earnings History.

GMS is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 29th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for GMS.

GMS will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, August 29th at 8:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

8 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for GMS's stock. Their forecasts range from $20.00 to $34.00. On average, they expect GMS's share price to reach $25.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 4.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for GMS.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for GMS in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for GMS.

Headlines about GMS stock have trended positive on Thursday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. GMS earned a coverage optimism score of 2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for GMS.

GMS saw a drop in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 903,900 shares, a drop of 17.1% from the June 30th total of 1,090,800 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 417,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.2 days. Approximately 2.8% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View GMS's Current Options Chain.

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(GMS) raised $154 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday, May 26th 2016. The company issued 7,000,000 shares at $21.00-$23.00 per share. Barclays and Credit Suisse served as the underwriters for the IPO and RBC Capital Markets, Baird, Wells Fargo Securities, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Raymond James and Stephens were co-managers.

GMS's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (11.69%), Vanguard Group Inc. (8.64%), Prudential Financial Inc. (1.64%), Nuveen Asset Management LLC (1.59%), Northern Trust Corp (1.06%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.02%). Company insiders that own GMS stock include Craig D Apolinsky, G Michael Callahan Jr, H Douglas Goforth, Investors Lp Aea, J David Smith, John J Gavin, Lynn Ross, Richard Alan Adams, Richard K Mueller and Ronald R Ross. View Institutional Ownership Trends for GMS.

GMS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Victory Capital Management Inc., Morgan Stanley, Prudential Financial Inc., Peregrine Capital Management LLC, D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., AQR Capital Management LLC, Gratia Capital LLC and Allianz Asset Management GmbH. View Insider Buying and Selling for GMS.

GMS stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Vanguard Group Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Invesco Ltd., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Trexquant Investment LP. Company insiders that have bought GMS stock in the last two years include Craig D Apolinsky, J David Smith, John J Gavin, Lynn Ross, Richard Alan Adams and Ronald R Ross. View Insider Buying and Selling for GMS.

Shares of GMS 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of GMS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $23.90.

GMS has a market capitalization of $965.08 million and generates $3.12 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $56 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.80 on an earnings per share basis. GMS employs 5,800 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About GMS.

The official website for GMS is http://www.gms.com/.

GMS's mailing address is 100 CRESCENT CENTRE PARKWAY SUITE 800, TUCKER GA, 30084. The company can be reached via phone at 800-392-4619 or via email at [email protected]