Guess? (NYSE:GES) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Guess? (NYSE:GES) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.850-2.000 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 2.500. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.0 billion-$3.0 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.1 billion. Guess? also updated its Q4 guidance to $1.37-1.52 EPS.

Guess? Stock Performance

Guess? stock traded down $0.67 during midday trading on Tuesday, reaching $17.37. 1,754,193 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,113,588. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $18.36 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $20.83. Guess? has a fifty-two week low of $16.05 and a fifty-two week high of $33.50. The firm has a market cap of $893.17 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 6.99 and a beta of 1.94. The company has a current ratio of 1.47, a quick ratio of 0.76 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.01.

Guess? (NYSE:GES) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, November 26th. The company reported $0.34 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.37 by ($0.03). The company had revenue of $738.52 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $747.36 million. Guess? had a net margin of 6.05% and a return on equity of 24.18%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 13.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.49 EPS. On average, equities research analysts forecast that Guess? will post 2.63 earnings per share for the current year.

Guess? Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, September 27th. Investors of record on Wednesday, September 11th were paid a dividend of $0.30 per share. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a yield of 6.91%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, September 11th. Guess?’s dividend payout ratio is presently 48.39%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research firms have commented on GES. UBS Group reduced their price objective on shares of Guess? from $24.00 to $22.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, August 30th. Telsey Advisory Group reduced their price target on shares of Guess? from $26.00 to $21.00 and set a “market perform” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, August 29th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and one has given a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, Guess? presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $27.25.

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.