Guess? (NYSE:GES) Issues Q4 Earnings Guidance

Guess? (NYSE:GES) issued an update on its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.37-1.52 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.96. The company issued revenue guidance of $910.65-939.17 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $980.77 million. Guess? also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 1.850-2.000 EPS.

Guess? Trading Down 5.4 %

Guess? stock opened at $16.39 on Friday. Guess? has a 52-week low of $15.24 and a 52-week high of $33.50. The company has a quick ratio of 0.76, a current ratio of 1.54 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.28. The firm has a market capitalization of $842.77 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.77 and a beta of 1.94. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $18.19 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $20.71.

Guess? (NYSE:GES) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November 26th. The company reported $0.34 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.37 by ($0.03). Guess? had a return on equity of 23.68% and a net margin of 3.19%. The business had revenue of $738.52 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $747.36 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.49 earnings per share. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 13.4% on a year-over-year basis. Sell-side analysts expect that Guess? will post 1.93 earnings per share for the current year.

Guess? Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, December 27th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, December 11th will be issued a dividend of $0.30 per share. This represents a $1.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 7.32%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 11th. Guess?’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 100.84%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

GES has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. Telsey Advisory Group decreased their target price on shares of Guess? from $21.00 to $18.00 and set a “market perform” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday. UBS Group decreased their price objective on shares of Guess? from $18.00 to $16.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $25.00.

Guess? Company Profile

Guess?, Inc designs, markets, distributes, and licenses lifestyle collections of apparel and accessories for men, women, and children. It operates through five segments: Americas Retail, Americas Wholesale, Europe, Asia, and Licensing. The company’s clothing collection includes jeans, pants, skirts, dresses, shorts, blouses, shirts, jackets, activewear, knitwear, and intimate apparel.