Telsey Advisory Group Trims Guess? (NYSE:GES) Target Price to $21.00

Guess? (NYSE:GES) had its price target trimmed by Telsey Advisory Group from $26.00 to $21.00 in a report published on Thursday, MarketBeat Ratings reports. The brokerage currently has a market perform rating on the stock. Telsey Advisory Group also issued estimates for Guess?’s Q4 2025 earnings at $2.08 EPS, FY2025 earnings at $2.65 EPS, Q2 2026 earnings at $0.44 EPS, Q4 2026 earnings at $2.29 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $2.95 EPS.

A number of other equities analysts have also recently commented on the company. StockNews.com cut Guess? from a buy rating to a hold rating in a report on Monday, June 3rd. UBS Group reduced their target price on Guess? from $32.00 to $29.00 and set a neutral rating for the company in a report on Thursday, May 23rd. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of Hold and an average target price of $27.25.

Guess? Stock Performance

NYSE GES opened at $20.72 on Thursday. The stock has a market capitalization of $1.11 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 6.19 and a beta of 1.91. Guess? has a twelve month low of $19.58 and a twelve month high of $33.50. The company has a current ratio of 1.57, a quick ratio of 0.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.92. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $21.85 and a 200 day moving average of $24.46.

Guess? (NYSE:GES) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 28th. The company reported $0.42 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.43 by ($0.01). Guess? had a return on equity of 26.92% and a net margin of 7.97%. The business had revenue of $732.60 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $729.96 million. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.72 EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 10.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Guess? will post 2.88 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Guess? Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, September 27th. Investors of record on Wednesday, September 11th will be issued a $0.30 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, September 11th. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.79%. Guess?’s dividend payout ratio is presently 35.82%.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Guess?

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Hennessy Advisors Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Guess? by 14.1% in the first quarter. Hennessy Advisors Inc. now owns 1,141,100 shares of the company’s stock valued at $35,910,000 after purchasing an additional 141,000 shares during the last quarter. Nomura Holdings Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Guess? by 12.7% in the fourth quarter. Nomura Holdings Inc. now owns 800,163 shares of the company’s stock valued at $18,452,000 after purchasing an additional 90,205 shares during the last quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Guess? in the first quarter valued at approximately $4,029,000. Range Financial Group LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Guess? in the first quarter valued at approximately $1,784,000. Finally, Natixis acquired a new stake in shares of Guess? in the first quarter valued at approximately $963,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 61.74% of the company’s stock.

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.