Generac - GNRC Stock Forecast, Price & News

26 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Generac in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 10 hold ratings and 13 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" GNRC shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in GNRC, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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26 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Generac's stock. Their GNRC share price forecasts range from $75.00 to $485.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $198.96 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 81.2% from the stock's current price.
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Generac's stock was trading at $100.66 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, GNRC shares have increased by 9.1% and is now trading at $109.78.
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Generac saw a drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 5,300,000 shares, a drop of 8.5% from the February 28th total of 5,790,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,440,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.7 days. Approximately 8.7% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 3rd 2023.
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Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE:GNRC) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 15th. The technology company reported $1.78 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.70 by $0.08. The technology company earned $1.05 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.07 billion. Generac had a net margin of 8.75% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 23.82%. Generac's revenue was down 1.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $2.51 earnings per share.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Generac (NYSE:GNRC) stock in their portfolio include ProShares S&P Kensho Cleantech ETF (CTEX), SPDR S&P Kensho Clean Power ETF (CNRG), SPDR S&P Kensho Intelligent Structures ETF (SIMS), Invesco S&P 500 GARP ETF (SPGP), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Industrials ETF (RGI), Schwab Ariel ESG ETF (SAEF), Future Fund Active ETF (FFND) and Innovator Gradient Tactical Rotation Strategy ETF (IGTR).

Generac updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 15th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.11 billion-$4.29 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.19 billion.

214 employees have rated Generac Chief Executive Officer Aaron Jagdfeld on Glassdoor.com. Aaron Jagdfeld has an approval rating of 60% among the company's employees. This puts Aaron Jagdfeld in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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

Generac's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Brown Advisory Inc. (2.50%), Ariel Investments LLC (2.07%), Geode Capital Management LLC (2.02%), Morgan Stanley (1.87%), Impax Asset Management Group plc (1.82%) and Two Sigma Investments LP (1.38%). Insiders that own company stock include Aaron Jagdfeld, Erik Wilde, Patrick John Forsythe, Rajendra Kumar Kanuru, Robert D Dixon, Russell S Minick and York A Ragen.
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Shares of GNRC stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of GNRC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $109.78.

Generac (NYSE:GNRC) has a market capitalization of $6.79 billion and generates $4.56 billion in revenue each year. The technology company earns $399.50 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.44 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 9,500 workers across the globe.

Generac's mailing address is S45 W29290 HIGHWAY 59, WAUKESHA WI, 53189. The official website for the company is www.generac.com. The technology company can be reached via phone at (262) 544-4811, via email at investorrelations@generac.com, or via fax at 302-636-5454.