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

Guess? (NYSE:GES) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 1.850-2.000 for the period, compared to the consensus 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? Trading Down 5.4 %

NYSE:GES opened at $16.39 on Friday. Guess? has a 1 year low of $15.24 and a 1 year high of $33.50. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $18.19 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $20.71. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.28, a current ratio of 1.54 and a quick ratio of 0.76. The company has a market cap of $842.77 million, a P/E ratio of 13.77 and a beta of 1.94.

Guess? (NYSE:GES) last announced its quarterly 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 firm had revenue of $738.52 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $747.36 million. Guess? had a return on equity of 23.68% and a net margin of 3.19%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 13.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.49 earnings per share. As a group, analysts expect that Guess? will post 1.93 EPS for the current year.

Guess? Dividend Announcement

The company 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 $0.30 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 11th. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 7.32%. Guess?’s payout ratio is currently 100.84%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

GES has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Telsey Advisory Group reduced their target price on Guess? from $21.00 to $18.00 and set a “market perform” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday. UBS Group cut their price objective on Guess? from $18.00 to $16.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus 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.