Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for GIL in the last 90 days.
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Gildan Activewear (GIL) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Sep 28 close
$42.62+1.64 (+4.0%)
Gekko Brief
AI summaryGildan Activewear stock has fallen sharply since its acquisition of HanesBrands, with concerns about integration costs and softening apparel demand weighing on shares, including a 10.7% drop noted on one recent day. Rosen Law Firm has repeatedly announced investigations into potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders. Separately, brokerages have set an average 12-month target price of $76.50 on the stock, with a consensus rating described as "Moderate Buy," while a dividend outlook piece pointed to the company's cash flow generation as a potential support for shareholder returns.
Gildan closed at $42.62, up 4% on the day, but remains below both its 50-day average of $52.04 and 200-day average of $58.32, with the 50-day below the 200-day. Trailing returns are negative across the past one, three, six and twelve months, and the stock trades well off its 52-week high of $73.69, closer to its 52-week low of $39.93. The GekkoIndex reads 74, placing it in the Buying zone, and the current price sits 29.4% below Gekko Fair Value of $60.39.
Gildan's next earnings report is scheduled for 29 October 2026, 30 days out and beyond a typical 20-trading-day hold; its last report on 30 July 2026 produced an 8.1% reaction. No insider, Congress or unusual options activity appears in the current windows. Seasonality data show the next 20 trading days have averaged a 2.6% gain over five years, rising in three of those years, a pattern worth noting alongside ongoing legal-investigation headlines.
Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 29, 2026 from the data above.
Gildan Activewear price vs fair value
Close $42.62200-day averageGekko Fair Value $60.39
Gildan Activewear quick facts
- Market cap
- $6.52B
- P/E ratio
- 31.8
- Forward P/E
- 8.8
- EPS, TTM
- $1.29
- Revenue, TTM
- $4.74B
- Profit margin
- 1.3%
- Dividend yield
- 2.34%
- Beta
- 1.09
- Volume
- 3.00M avg 1.69M
- 1-year return
- −24.8%
- Typical daily move
- ±4.7%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±5.7%
- 50-day average
- $52.04
- 200-day average
- $58.32
- Next earnings
- Oct 29 before open
- Shares outstanding
- 185.2M
Gildan Activewear swing-trade checklist
Gildan Activewear scores 4 supportive, 0 mixed and 1 headwind across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
4 supportive0 mixed1 headwind
- Trendheadwind
Below 50 and 200-day
Close $42.62 is below the 50-day ($52.04) and 200-day ($58.32) averages, and the 50-day is below the 200-day.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
74, Buying
Reading 74 is in the Buying zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
29.4% below
Price is 29.4% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
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No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 30 days
Next report Oct 29, 2026, 30 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+2.6% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +2.6% over 5 years, rising in 3 of them.
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Gildan Activewear stock chart and price history
Gildan Activewear closed at $42.62 on Sep 28, 2026, −24.8% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $39.93 to $73.69.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −19.9%
- 3 months
- −17.5%
- 6 months
- −21.7%
- 1 year
- −24.8%
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About Gildan Activewear
Gildan Activewear designs and manufactures clothing that it distributes worldwide, with customers spanning the United States, other parts of North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Casual basics form the core of its business, ranging from T-shirts to fleece garments and athletic tops, marketed through labels such as Gildan, Gildan Performance, Gildan Hammer, Comfort Colors, American Apparel, Alstyle and GoldToe.
The company also makes hosiery, including socks built for sport, dress wear, everyday use, liners, therapeutic needs and job-site conditions, together with sheer pantyhose, tights and leggings, sold under names like Under Armour, PowerSox, Peds, MediPeds and Secret, among others. Its lineup extends further into underwear for men and boys, panties for women, and shapewear or intimate apparel carried under the Secret and Secret Silky names. To reach shoppers, Gildan works through channels such as distributors, printers who customize garments, embellishing businesses, everyday retail chains and companies that build lifestyle brands.
Originally established in 1946 under the name Textiles Gildan Inc., the company adopted its present name in March 1995. It runs its operations from headquarters in Montreal, Canada, with stock that trades on the NYSE under the ticker GIL.
- Listed
- NYSE
- Sector
- Consumer non-durables
- Industry
- Apparel/Footwear
- Website
- gildancorp.com
Gildan Activewear GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Gildan Activewear’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 74, in the Buying zone, up 2.2 points over five sessions.
74Buying
Up 2.2 points over five sessions.
Reading for Sep 28, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying (current zone) | 30 | −1.8% | +1.4% | ||
| Accumulation | 151 | +0.8% | +4.2% | ||
| Neutral | 446 | +0.4% | +0.9% | ||
| Distribution | 37 | −0.6% | −2.4% | ||
| Selling | 8 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average GIL share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Buying readings averaged +3.2% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Buying zone: Smart money likely accumulating heavily. About the five zones →
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Is Gildan Activewear stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Gildan Activewear trades 29.4% below Gekko Fair Value of $60.39, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Gildan Activewear shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$60.39
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 29, 2026
29.4% Undervalued
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Gildan Activewear insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Gildan Activewear, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in GIL were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
Gildan Activewear has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- $4.77M
- As a share of market cap
- 0.07%
- Trailing four quarters
- $109.0M
From company filings.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30
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Gildan Activewear earnings: next date and track record
Gildan Activewear reports on Oct 29, 2026, before the open (30 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 4 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Oct 29, 2026
Expected before the open, 30 days away
- EPS estimate
- $1.60
- Revenue estimate
- $1.64B
4 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±5.5%average move across the report
5 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Jul 30, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- Gildan reported Q2 2026 net sales of $1.58 billion, up 72% YoY driven by the HanesBrands acquisition, with adjusted diluted EPS of $1.28, up 32% YoY. The company is on track to deliver ~$100 million in synergies in 2026, targeting $250 million in annual run-rate cost synergies over three years. Gildan expects ~$220 million in IEEPA tariff refunds in 2026, with recurring benefits from CAFTA-DR tariff exemptions representing a structural advantage.
- Guidance
- Gildan updated its 2026 guidance reflecting tariff refund benefits and maintained its 3-year objectives for 2026-2028. The company expects the next $100 million in synergies to be targeted for 2027, with improving operating performance visibility as 2026 progresses.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2026 | $1.28 est $1.11 | $1.58B est $1.61B | +8.1% |
| Apr 30, 2026 | $0.43 est $0.35 | $1.17B est $1.14B | +9.3% |
| Feb 26, 2026 | $0.96 est $1.31 | $1.08B est $1.15B | −4.5% |
| Oct 29, 2025 | $1.00 est $0.98 | $910.6M est $966.4M | −4.0% |
| Jul 31, 2025 | $0.97 est $0.96 | $918.5M est $922.3M | −0.9% |
| Apr 29, 2025 | $0.59 est $0.64 | $711.7M est $913.6M | +8.1% |
| Feb 19, 2025 | $0.83 est $1.13 | $821.5M est $714.4M | +6.0% |
| Oct 31, 2024 | $0.85 est $0.85 | $898.5M est $810.4M | +2.7% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Gildan Activewear stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Gildan Activewear is $82.00, +92.4% from the last close.
$82.00consensus 12-month target, +92.4% from the last close
+1.4%average 20-day move after past Buying readings
+2.6%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±4.7%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Gildan Activewear seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 29, Gildan Activewear averaged +2.6% across the last 5 years, rising in 3 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +1.5% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +2.3% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +2.5% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +2.6% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +6.6% | 3 of 5 |
For scale, GIL’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 5.7%.
Gildan Activewear market cap and key statistics
Gildan Activewear’s market cap is $6.52B, with a P/E ratio of 31.8 and revenue of $4.74B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $6.52B
- P/E ratio
- 31.8
- Forward P/E
- 8.8
- EPS, TTM
- $1.29
- Gekko Fair Value
- $60.39
Trading
- Volume
- 3.00M
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 1.69M
- 52-week high
- $73.69
- 52-week low
- $39.93
- Shares outstanding
- 185.2M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $4.74B
- Profit margin
- 1.3%
- Return on equity
- 8.7%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- −59.2%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 1.09
- Typical daily move
- ±4.7%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±5.7%
- Dividend yield
- 2.34%
Gildan Activewear stock news this week
Coverage of Gildan Activewear this week reads negative: 3 positive, 0 neutral and 5 negative headlines.
- ROSEN, A HIGHLY RECOGNIZED LAW FIRM, Encourages Gildan Activewear Inc. Investors to Inquire About Securities Class Action Investigation - GILNewsfile Corp, Sep 27
- Rosen Law Firm Encourages Gildan Activewear Inc. Investors to Inquire About Securities Class Action Investigation - GILGuruFocus, Sep 26
- Gildan Activewear, Inc. (NYSE:GIL) Stock Has Average Target Price of $76.50 According to BrokeragesMarketBeat, Sep 26
- Gildan (GIL) Has Halved Since Buying HanesBrands. Bargain or Broken Deal?Insider Monkey, Sep 25
- Gildan Investor News: If You Have Suffered Losses in Gildan Activewear Inc. (NYSE: GIL), You Are Encouraged to Contact The Rosen Law Firm About Your RightsGlobeNewsWire, Sep 25
- Why Gildan Activewear Stock Fell TodayQuiver Quantitative, Sep 24
Gildan Activewear peers
Gildan Activewear’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| NKENike | Accumulation | 20.3% below |
| RLRalph Lauren | Neutral | 10.3% above |
| LULUlululemon athletica | Accumulation | 37.6% below |
| DECKDeckers Outdoor | Accumulation | 38.3% below |
| ONONOn | Neutral | 16.3% below |
| LEVILevi Strauss | Accumulation | 1.7% below |
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Gildan Activewear stock FAQ
What is Gildan Activewear’s market cap?
Gildan Activewear’s market cap is $6.52B at the Sep 28, 2026 close of $42.62, with 185.2M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 31.8.
What is the Gildan Activewear stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Gildan Activewear is $82.00, +92.4% from the last close. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Gildan Activewear stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Gildan Activewear is undervalued: the Sep 28, 2026 close of $42.62 is 29.4% below Gekko Fair Value of $60.39. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Gildan Activewear report earnings next?
Gildan Activewear is expected to report on Oct 29, 2026, before the market opens (30 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $1.60 per share on revenue of $1.64B. Gildan Activewear beat the earnings estimate in 4 of its last 8 reports, moving 5.5% on average across the report.
What is Gildan Activewear’s 52-week high and low?
Gildan Activewear’s 52-week high is $73.69 and its 52-week low is $39.93; it closed at $42.62 on Sep 28, 2026, −24.8% over the past year.
Is Gildan Activewear stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 4 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value, earnings risk and seasonality) and 1 as a headwind (trend). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
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