After Hours
After-hours and pre-market trading may carry slightly higher risks than regular market hours. As issuers often announce important financial information outside regular trading hours, extended-hours trading may result in wider spreads for a particular security. That is because extended-hours trading may result in lower liquidity and higher volatility.
Stocks Info
GEO belongs to the Industrials sector of the NYSE while operating in the Security & Protection Services industry. The current market capitalization of Geo Group, Inc is $4.21B. A total of 2.64 million shares were traded on the day, compared to an average of 3.43M shares.
In the most recent transaction, Brack Ronald A. sold 5,000 shares of GEO for 28.28 per share on Dec 09 ’24. After the transaction, the EVP, CAO and Controller now owns 71,978 company shares. In a previous transaction on Dec 09 ’24, Brack Ronald A. bought 5,000 shares at 28.28 per share.
Among the insiders who bought shares, ZOLEY GEORGE C acquired of 100,000 shares on Aug 12 ’24 at a per-share price of $12.33. This resulted in the Executive Chairman holding 3,900,904 shares of GEO after the transaction. In another insider transaction, ZOLEY GEORGE C bought 100,000 shares at $12.22 per share on Aug 09 ’24. Company shares held by the Executive Chairman now total 3,800,904.
While price targets are rarely accurate, they tend to exert some kind of influence from time to time and are often taken into account by investors. In terms of 52-week highs and lows, GEO has a high of $29.86 and a low of $10.46.
Balance Sheet Annually/Quarterly
An organization’s balance sheet depicts the assets and liabilities it has, as well as the amount of equity invested. Investors can measure a company’s prospects by calculating its financial ratios using this information. GEO’s latest balance sheet shows that the firm has $506.49M in Cash & Short Term Investments as of fiscal 2021. There were $3.06B in debt and $378.84M in liabilities at the time. Its Book Value Per Share was $9.42, while its Total Shareholder’s Equity was $975.02M.
Analysts Opinion
There is a slight risk associated with trading before and after the market open. Due to lower liquidity and higher volatility, extended-hours trading may result in wider spreads on particular security due to the release of critical financial information after regular trading hours. Currently, 0 analysts are providing their opinions on the stock. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being Sell and 5 being Buy, the average analyst rating for GEO is Buy with a score of 4.50.
