GAP’s (GAP) Market Perform Rating Reiterated at Telsey Advisory Group

Telsey Advisory Group restated their market perform rating on shares of GAP (NYSE:GAP) in a research note released on Friday morning,Benzinga reports. Telsey Advisory Group currently has a $26.00 price target on the stock. Telsey Advisory Group also issued estimates for GAP’s Q1 2026 earnings at $0.45 EPS, FY2026 earnings at $2.39 EPS and FY2027 earnings at $2.56 EPS.

Several other research firms have also weighed in on GAP. Wells Fargo & Company boosted their target price on GAP from $28.00 to $30.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday, November 22nd. UBS Group upgraded GAP from a “sell” rating to a “neutral” rating and boosted their target price for the stock from $16.00 to $26.00 in a report on Friday, January 10th. Barclays boosted their target price on GAP from $32.00 to $33.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday. Guggenheim restated a “buy” rating and issued a $35.00 target price on shares of GAP in a report on Friday, November 22nd. Finally, Evercore ISI boosted their target price on GAP from $32.00 to $33.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, November 22nd. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and seven have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, GAP has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $29.33.

GAP Price Performance

GAP opened at $23.24 on Friday. GAP has a fifty-two week low of $18.54 and a fifty-two week high of $30.75. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $23.14. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.47, a current ratio of 1.54 and a quick ratio of 0.84. The stock has a market cap of $8.76 billion, a P/E ratio of 10.76, a PEG ratio of 0.94 and a beta of 2.38.

GAP (NYSE:GAP) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, March 6th. The company reported $0.54 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.36 by $0.18. GAP had a return on equity of 29.03% and a net margin of 5.40%. The company had revenue of $4.15 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.07 billion. On average, equities research analysts expect that GAP will post 2.02 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

GAP Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, April 30th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, April 9th will be given a dividend of $0.165 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, April 9th. This is a boost from GAP’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.15. This represents a $0.66 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.84%. GAP’s payout ratio is currently 29.86%.

Insider Activity

In other GAP news, major shareholder John J. Fisher sold 250,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, December 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $24.18, for a total value of $6,045,000.00. Following the sale, the insider now directly owns 1,000,752 shares in the company, valued at $24,198,183.36. This represents a 19.99 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. 31.00% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

GAP Company Profile

Gap, Inc operates as a global apparel retail company, which offers clothing, apparel, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, and children. The firm operates through the following segments: Gap Global, Old Navy Global, Banana Republic Global, Athleta, and Other. The Gap Global segment includes apparel and accessories for men and women under the Gap brand, along with the GapKids, BabyGap, GapMaternity, GapBody, and GapFit collections.