The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS) Stock

About The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS) operates as a prominent global financial services firm, offering an extensive array of services to corporations, financial institutions, governmental bodies, and individuals worldwide. The company's operations are organized into four primary divisions: Investment Banking, Global Markets, Asset Management, and Consumer & Wealth Management. The Investment Banking segment furnishes strategic advisory services covering intricate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense strategies, restructurings, and spin-offs. It also extends various lending facilities, including middle-market, relationship, and acquisition financing, in addition to transaction banking services. This division further specializes in underwriting, assisting clients with equity offerings for common, preferred, and convertible securities, as well as debt offerings encompassing investment-grade, high-yield, bank/bridge loans, and emerging market debt instruments, alongside the creation of structured securities. Within its Global Markets division, Goldman Sachs engages in client execution activities for both cash and derivative instruments, provides solutions for credit and interest rate products, and offers comprehensive equity intermediation, financing, clearing, settlement, and custody services. This segment also transacts in products linked to mortgages, foreign exchange, commodities, and equities. The Asset Management segment is responsible for managing assets across a diverse spectrum of classes, including equities, fixed income, hedge funds, credit funds, private equity, real estate, currencies, and commodities. It delivers tailored investment advisory solutions and makes direct investments in corporate entities, real estate ventures, and infrastructure projects. The Consumer & Wealth Management segment provides individual clients with wealth advisory and banking services. These include financial planning, investment management, deposit-taking, and lending. It also offers private banking services, unsecured loans, and accepts savings and time deposits. Founded in 1869, the company's corporate headquarters are located in New York, New York.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is led by CEO David Solomon, employs 46,600 people, headquartered in New York City, US, publicly traded since 1999.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS) stock trades at $980.75 with a market capitalization of $289.33B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 19.42, price-to-book of 2.98, price-to-sales of 2.83. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $523.42 and $1152.87, and currently trades 14.9% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.60%.

On profitability, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 14.55%, above the typical market average, return on capital employed of 17.49%, an operating margin of 20.48%, a net profit margin of 16.31%.

In its most recent fiscal year, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. reported annual revenue of $125.1B, net profit of $17.2B, revenue has compounded at 18.5% a year over the last five years, profit at 12.7% a year.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 6.10 — a leveraged balance sheet worth monitoring, a current ratio of 0.83, total assets of $1.81T, $164.3B in cash and equivalents.

GS has an average daily trading volume of 2,116,448 shares, a beta of 1.29.

Official website: www.goldmansachs.com