NYSE:GPC - Genuine Parts Stock Price, Forecast & News

Genuine Parts trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GPC."

Genuine Parts declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, November 18th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.7625 per share on Thursday, January 2nd. This represents a $3.05 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.97%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 5th. View Genuine Parts' Dividend History.

Genuine Parts (NYSE:GPC) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 17th. The specialty retailer reported $1.50 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.47 by $0.03. The specialty retailer had revenue of $5.02 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $5.03 billion. Genuine Parts had a net margin of 4.14% and a return on equity of 23.20%. The company's revenue was up 6.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.48 EPS. View Genuine Parts' Earnings History.

Genuine Parts is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 18th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Genuine Parts.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Genuine Parts' stock. Their forecasts range from $93.00 to $114.00. On average, they expect Genuine Parts' share price to reach $103.86 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Genuine Parts.

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

Press coverage about GPC stock has trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Genuine Parts earned a news sentiment score of 1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the specialty retailer a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Genuine Parts.

Genuine Parts saw a decline in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,000,000 shares, a decline of 16.0% from the December 15th total of 3,570,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 635,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.7 days. Approximately 2.1% of the company's shares are short sold. View Genuine Parts' Current Options Chain.

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Genuine Parts' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Park National Corp OH (0.15%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.11%), PGGM Investments (0.09%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.06%), Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. (0.05%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%). Company insiders that own Genuine Parts stock include James R Neill, John R Holder, Randall P Breaux and Scott Sonnemaker. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Genuine Parts.

GPC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including PGGM Investments, Park National Corp OH, DNB Asset Management AS, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH. View Insider Buying and Selling for Genuine Parts.

GPC stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., BT Wealth Management LLC, Foster Victor Wealth Advisors LLC, Perigon Wealth Management LLC, Arvest Bank Trust Division, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI and F3Logic LLC. Company insiders that have bought Genuine Parts stock in the last two years include John R Holder and Scott Sonnemaker. View Insider Buying and Selling for Genuine Parts.

Shares of GPC 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 GPC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $102.80.

Genuine Parts has a market capitalization of $14.94 billion and generates $18.74 billion in revenue each year. The specialty retailer earns $810.47 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.68 on an earnings per share basis. Genuine Parts employs 50,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Genuine Parts.

The official website for Genuine Parts is http://www.genpt.com/.

Genuine Parts' mailing address is 2999 WILDWOOD PARKWAY, ATLANTA GA, 30339. The specialty retailer can be reached via phone at 678-934-5000 or via email at [email protected]