Guess? (NYSE:GES) Updates 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? Stock Performance

NYSE:GES opened at $16.39 on Thursday. The company has a market cap of $842.81 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 6.61 and a beta of 1.94. Guess? has a fifty-two week low of $15.24 and a fifty-two week high of $33.50. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.01, a quick ratio of 0.76 and a current ratio of 1.47. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $18.26 and a 200-day moving average price of $20.74.

Guess? (NYSE:GES) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November 26th. The company reported $0.34 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.37 by ($0.03). Guess? had a return on equity of 24.18% and a net margin of 6.05%. The firm had revenue of $738.52 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $747.36 million. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.49 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 13.4% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, equities analysts anticipate that Guess? will post 2.63 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Guess? Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, December 27th. Investors of record on Wednesday, December 11th will be paid a $0.30 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 11th. This represents a $1.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 7.32%. Guess?’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 48.39%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

GES has been the topic of a number of research analyst reports. UBS Group reduced their target price on Guess? from $18.00 to $16.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday. Telsey Advisory Group dropped their price objective on Guess? from $21.00 to $18.00 and set a “market perform” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $25.00.

About Guess?

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.