Goldman's (GS) Q1 Earnings & Revenues Beat Estimates April 17, 2018

David Solomon co-chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs in New York in November 2017

David Solomon co-chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs in New York in November 2017

Goldman's results follow earnings on Friday from JPMorgan, Citigroup and Wells Fargo (WFC). The brokerage now has an outperform rating on the investment management company's stock.

A number of analysts recently weighed in on the stock. In particular focus were Goldman Sachs (GS), which rose 1.2% after its results, and Netflix Inc. The improvement in the bond trading arm came in spite of rivals - such as Bank of America - struggling.

Goldman Sachs comfortably beat Wall Street expectations yesterday as it reported its best start to a year since 2015.

Shares of LON JE opened at GBX 720.80 ($10.32) on Friday. Morgan Stanley upped their price objective on Goldman Sachs from $294.00 to $297.00 and gave the company an "overweight" rating in a research report on Friday, February 2nd.

Several equities analysts have commented on the company. The price index of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Another trade for 4,951 shs valued at $1.19 million was made by GNODDE RICHARD J on Wednesday, October 18. The company has a current ratio of 8.96, a quick ratio of 8.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.36. Looking at the stock's movement on the chart, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. recorded a 52-week high of $275.31. The investment management company reported $6.95 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $5.30 by $1.65. Goldman Sachs Group had a net margin of 24.17% and a return on equity of 9.78%.

Its net revenues of US$10.04bln were 25% higher than they were in the first quarter of 2017 while the bank's annualized return on equity of 15.4% reached its highest level in over five years.

On average, twenty one analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected the company to report earnings of $5.58 per share.

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Goldman Sachs also announced that it is increasing its quarterly dividend from 75 cents to 80 cents. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, February 28th. The FCF Score of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. The shares were sold at an average price of $240.19, for a total transaction of $3,887,475.15. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. At the time of writing, Goldman Sachs Group (GS) has a 14-day ATR of 7.32.

A simple moving average (SMA) is an arithmetic moving average calculated by adding the closing price of the security for some time periods and then dividing this total by the number of time periods. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. The stock has been active on the tape, now trading at $257.88, up from yesterday's close by 0.77%.

Short Ratio of stock is 1.67. It fall, as 58 investors sold C shares while 480 reduced holdings.

Goldman Sachs was one of the lead underwriters for several hot tech IPOs, including Dropbox and the cybersecurity company Zscaler. The institutional investor held 862,063 shares of the finance company at the end of 2017Q4, valued at $219.62M, down from 895,111 at the end of the previous reported quarter. Cerebellum GP LLC acquired a new stake in Goldman Sachs in the fourth quarter worth $122,000. New York-based Tocqueville Asset Management Lp has invested 0.23% in The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Investors are constantly attempting to find the next great stock to own.

Marcus by Goldman Sachs, the two-year-old online consumer lending and savings arm, just surpassed the $3 billion mark for consumer loans during the first-quarter, while the us deposits franchise surpassed $20 billion.

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