Guess? (NYSE:GES) Issues FY26 Earnings Guidance

Guess? (NYSE:GES - Get Free Report) updated its FY26 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.32-1.76 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.02. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.12-3.19 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.04 billion. Guess? also updated its FY 2026 guidance to 1.320-1.760 EPS.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of equities analysts have commented on GES shares. Telsey Advisory Group reaffirmed a "market perform" rating and issued a $13.00 price target on shares of Guess? in a research note on Friday. UBS Group cut their price objective on Guess? from $15.00 to $12.00 and set a "neutral" rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, March 11th.

Guess? Price Performance

Shares of GES stock traded down $1.07 on Tuesday, hitting $8.68. 2,551,493 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,255,307. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $11.53 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $14.72. Guess? has a 52 week low of $8.58 and a 52 week high of $30.78. The firm has a market cap of $446.39 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 7.29 and a beta of 1.43. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.18, a current ratio of 1.54 and a quick ratio of 0.74.

Guess? (NYSE:GES - Get Free Report) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, April 3rd. The company reported $1.48 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.41 by $0.07. Guess? had a return on equity of 23.29% and a net margin of 3.19%. The firm had revenue of $932.25 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $916.75 million. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $2.01 earnings per share. The business's revenue was up 4.6% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, equities research analysts predict that Guess? will post 1.92 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

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Guess? Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, May 2nd. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, April 16th will be given a dividend of $0.30 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, April 16th. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 13.83%. Guess?'s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 100.84%.

Guess? announced that its board has authorized a share buyback program on Tuesday, March 25th that allows the company to repurchase $200.00 million in shares. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 38.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are typically an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

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.