NYSE: GS

Goldman Sachs (GS) Stock Analysis & Forecast

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The). Finance sector, investment banks/brokers industry. Market cap $277.9B.

$942.00−9.47 (−1.0%)

Close on Sep 18, 2026. Page updated Sep 19, 9:16 pm ET.

Gekko Brief

AI summary

Goldman Sachs closes at $942.00, down 1% on the day, sitting between its 50-day average of $1036.41 and its 200-day average of $956.86. The GekkoIndex reads 72.4, placing the stock in the Buying zone, up 12.7 over five days. Price stands 12.7% below Gekko Fair Value of $1078.51. Over the past month the stock is down 7.8%, though it remains up 16.4% over six months and 18.6% over one year.

This week's coverage centers on Goldman Sachs' own research output alongside notes on its stock. The firm's chief global equity strategist reinforced an "earnings bubble" warning tied to AI infrastructure spending and government borrowing, while separate commentary flagged that S&P 500 earnings growth is expected to cool rather than reverse. Elsewhere, Goldman Sachs adjusted its price target on Alexandria Real Estate Equities to $59 from $54 while keeping a Neutral rating, and reports noted the bank raised its Federal Reserve rate-hike expectations for October. Nykredit A S disclosed a purchase of 139,970 shares valued at approximately $141.6 million. The bank also opened a new engineering office in Bellevue, Washington, focused on AI and cloud transformation.

Goldman Sachs next reports earnings on 13 October 2026, 23 days out and within a typical 20-trading-day holding window; its last quarter showed EPS of $20.98 against an estimate of $14.47, with a 10.2% reaction, and it has beaten estimates in 8 of the last 8 quarters. Congress recorded 1 buy and 0 sells in the last 90 days, and 1 unusual options signal appeared in the last 30 days, with call premium of $10,019,430. Seasonally, the next 20 trading days have averaged -0.8% over 5 years, positive in 2 of them.

Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 20, 2026 from the data above.

Price vs fair value

Close $942.00200-day averageGekko Fair Value $1,078.51

Key stats

Market cap
$277.9B
P/E ratio
14.5
Forward P/E
12.6
EPS, TTM
$65.65
Revenue, TTM
$67.57B
Profit margin
31%
Dividend yield
1.81%
Beta
1.28
Volume
3.87M avg 1.99M
1-year return
+18.6%
Typical daily move
±3%
Typical 20-day move
±5.6%
50-day average
$1,036.41
200-day average
$956.86
Next earnings
Oct 13
Shares outstanding
291.2M
52-week range
$740.01$1,153.99

Goldman Sachs swing-trade checklist

Goldman Sachs scores 3 supportive, 1 mixed and 2 headwinds across the 6 checklist items with data.

Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.

3 supportive1 mixed2 headwinds

  • Trendmixed

    Averages disagree

    Close $942.00 sits between the 50-day ($1036.41) and 200-day ($956.86) averages, or the averages disagree.

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  • GekkoIndexsupportive

    72.4, Buying

    Reading 72.4 is in the Buying zone.

    See the GekkoIndex
  • Fair valuesupportive

    12.7% below

    Price is 12.7% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).

    See fair value
  • Smart moneysupportive

    Leans bullish

    Last 90 days: Congress 1 buy / 0 sales. Last 30 days: 1 unusual options signal.

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  • Earnings riskheadwind

    Reports in 23 days

    Reports on Oct 13, 2026, 23 days away — inside a typical 20-trading-day hold.

    See earnings
  • Seasonalityheadwind

    −0.8% on average

    From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged −0.8% over 5 years, rising in 2 of them.

    See seasonality

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Goldman Sachs stock chart and price history

Goldman Sachs closed at $942.00 on Sep 18, 2026, +18.6% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $740.01 to $1,153.99.

Close50-day average200-day averageVolume

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Performance Breakdown

1 month
−7.8%
3 months
−14.1%
6 months
+16.4%
1 year
+18.6%
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About Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs is a global financial services firm serving corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individual clients. It is best known for its investment banking work, advising clients on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, and spin-offs, while also arranging lending, transaction banking, and underwriting for equity and debt offerings.

The firm's business is arranged into four divisions. Investment Banking covers advisory and financing work along with underwriting of securities. Global Markets handles trading and client execution across credit, interest rate, equity, mortgage, foreign exchange, and commodity products, plus financing, clearing, settlement, and custody services. Asset Management oversees investments spanning equities, fixed income, credit, hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and other asset classes, and makes direct investments in companies, property, and infrastructure. Consumer & Wealth Management serves individual clients with financial planning, investment advice, banking, lending, private banking, and deposit products.

The company was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Its shares are listed on the NYSE under the ticker GS.

Listed
NYSE
Sector
Finance
Industry
Investment banks/Brokers
Website
goldmansachs.com

Goldman Sachs GekkoIndex: the smart money zone

Goldman Sachs’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 72.4, in the Buying zone, up 12.7 points over five sessions.

010072.4Buying

Up 12.7 points over five sessions, from the Neutral zone.

Reading for Sep 18, 2026

What followed past readings in each zone

ZoneReadings5 days10 days20 days50 days
Buying (current zone)12+4.6%+6.5%+5.6%+21.6%
Accumulation107+0.7%+1.9%+4.5%+14.7%
Neutral481+0.9%+1.6%+3.3%+8.3%
Distribution59+0.2%+0.9%+1.5%+2.0%
Selling3Too few readings yet

Average GS 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 Goldman Sachs stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value

Goldman Sachs trades 12.7% below Gekko Fair Value of $1,078.51, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.

Gekko’s own estimate of what Goldman Sachs shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.

$1,078.51

Gekko Fair Value, Sep 19, 2026

12.7% Undervalued

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Goldman Sachs insider and Congress trading

No open-market insider purchases were filed for Goldman Sachs, and members of Congress disclosed 1 purchase and 0 sales, in the last 90 days.

Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.

Insider buying last 90 days

No open-market insider purchases were filed for GS in the last 90 days.

From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.

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Congress trades last 90 days

1trade disclosed: 1 purchase and 0 sales.

MemberTypeAmountDisclosed
Gilbert Cisneros
House, CA, purchase
Purchase$1,001 - $15,000Sep 11
traded Aug 26

From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.

Buybacks

Goldman Sachs has been buying back its own shares.

Bought back, quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
$4.00B
As a share of market cap
1.44%
Trailing four quarters
$14.00B

From company filings.

Unusual options activity last 30 days

1signal, 100% of the flagged premium in calls.

Latest: Bullish flow on Sep 3, $10.02M in unusual premium.

Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30

1of the funds Gekko tracks holds GS.

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Goldman Sachs earnings: next date and track record

Goldman Sachs reports on Oct 13, 2026 (23 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports.

8 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±3.5%average move across the report
7 of 8reports followed by a gain

Share-price move across each report

+1.4%Oct ’24+7.3%Jan ’25+2.7%Apr ’25+0.5%Jul ’25−2.4%Oct ’25+3.1%Jan ’26+0.2%Apr ’26+10.2%Jul ’26

Last earnings call, Jul 14, 2026 AI summary

What they said
Goldman Sachs reported record second-quarter and year-to-date results driven by strong performance across Global Banking & Markets (GBM), particularly in equities and investment banking. Net revenues were $20.3 billion with EPS of $20.98, quarterly ROE of 23.5% and ROTE of 25.5%. Investment banking benefited from significant M&A activity (large-cap M&A volumes up 90% year-to-date) and marquee equity underwritings (e.g., SpaceX, Alphabet). Equities revenues and FICC financing were standout drivers supported by multi-year investments in people, technology, and strategic capital allocation—particularly in Asia. Management emphasized the AI infrastructure build-out as a durable multi-year opportunity driving financing, underwriting, and advisory demand while noting the cycle will have bumps and recalibrations. The firm highlighted disciplined capital allocation—prioritizing client-facing deployment when accretive and returning excess capital via buybacks—and vigilance around binding constraints including CET1 and the Supplementary Leverage Ratio (SLR). Management expressed confidence and noted operating leverage from revenue growth outpacing expense growth, while continuing investments in OneGS 3.0 (cloud, AI, automation).
Risks flagged
Potential cyclical and non-linear nature of the AI build-out (possible short-term recalibrations); balance sheet and regulatory constraints including a falling SLR and limits on balance sheet expansion; capacity constraints versus client financing demand (selectivity required); macro and market volatility that could affect M&A and underwriting activity; concentration risk from large clients and regional exposure (Asia expansion).
ReportedEPSSurpriseRevenueSurpriseMove
Jul 14, 2026$20.98
est $14.47
+45.0%$20.34B
est $16.22B
+25.3%+10.2%
Apr 13, 2026$17.55
est $16.39
+7.1%$17.23B
est $16.99B
+1.4%+0.2%
Jan 15, 2026$14.01
est $11.70
+19.7%$13.45B
est $14.52B
−7.3%+3.1%
Oct 14, 2025$12.25
est $11.03
+11.1%$15.18B
est $14.12B
+7.5%−2.4%
Jul 16, 2025$10.91
est $9.65
+13.1%$14.58B
est $13.51B
+8.0%+0.5%
Apr 14, 2025$14.12
est $12.32
+14.6%$15.06B
est $14.77B
+2.0%+2.7%
Jan 15, 2025$10.97
est $8.29
+32.3%$13.87B
est $12.36B
+12.2%+7.3%
Oct 15, 2024$9.02
est $7.31
+23.4%$12.70B
est $11.77B
+7.9%+1.4%

“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.

Goldman Sachs stock forecast and analyst price targets

Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Goldman Sachs is $1,141.65, +21.2% from the last close, from 15 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.

$1,141.65consensus 12-month target, +21.2% from the last close
Low $955High $1,325
Buy6
Hold8
Sell1

Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 15 firms.

Latest analyst actions

DateFirmRatingTargetvs price
Sep 18BarclaysBuy, maintained$1,245+32.2%
Sep 17Morgan StanleyHold, reiterated$1,145+21.5%
Sep 17BarclaysBuy, maintained$1,245+32.2%
Aug 13JefferiesBuy, maintained$1,299+37.9%
Aug 12RBC CapitalHold, maintained$1,220+29.5%
+5.6%average 20-day move after past Buying readings
−0.8%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±3%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.

Goldman Sachs seasonality: the next 20 trading days

Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 19, Goldman Sachs averaged −0.8% across the last 5 years, rising in 2 of them.

Next 20 trading days, by year

+9.4%2021−6.7%2022−9.5%2023+5.0%2024−6.7%2025

Average move and hit rate

WindowAverageYears higher
Next 5 trading days−1.8%2 of 5
Next 10 trading days−4.2%1 of 5
Next 15 trading days−3.1%2 of 5
Next 20 trading days−0.8%2 of 5
Next 30 trading days+2.0%3 of 5

For scale, GS’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 5.6%.

Goldman Sachs market cap and key statistics

Goldman Sachs’s market cap is $277.9B, with a P/E ratio of 14.5 and revenue of $67.57B over the last twelve months.

Valuation

Market cap
$277.9B
P/E ratio
14.5
Forward P/E
12.6
EPS, TTM
$65.65
Gekko Fair Value
$1,078.51

Trading

Volume
3.87M
Avg volume, 20 days
1.99M
52-week high
$1,153.99
52-week low
$740.01
Shares outstanding
291.2M

Financials

Revenue, TTM
$67.57B
Profit margin
31%
Return on equity
16.9%
Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
+92.3%

Risk and income

Beta
1.28
Typical daily move
±3%
Typical 20-day move
±5.6%
Dividend yield
1.81%

Goldman Sachs stock news this week

Coverage of Goldman Sachs this week reads positive: 4 positive, 3 neutral and 1 negative headlines.

News sentiment positive

Goldman Sachs peers

Goldman Sachs’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.

StockTodayGekkoIndex zonevs Fair Value
SCHWCharles Schwab+0.5%Accumulation7.7% below
IBKRInteractive Brokers+0.9%Accumulation6.7% below
HOODRobinhood Markets+5.7%Neutral5.4% above
BNYBank of New York Mellon+1.0%Accumulation6.5% below
CMECME+1.5%Neutral1.0% above
ICEIntercontinental Exchange+2.0%Accumulation6.6% below

A peer links to its own page where one exists.

In the Buying zone today

Reporting earnings this week

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Goldman Sachs stock FAQ

What is Goldman Sachs’s market cap?

Goldman Sachs’s market cap is $277.9B at the Sep 18, 2026 close of $942.00, with 291.2M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 14.5.

What is the Goldman Sachs stock forecast?

The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Goldman Sachs is $1,141.65, +21.2% from the last close. Of the 15 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 6 rate it a buy, 8 a hold and 1 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.

Is Goldman Sachs stock overvalued or undervalued?

On Gekko’s estimate Goldman Sachs is undervalued: the Sep 18, 2026 close of $942.00 is 12.7% below Gekko Fair Value of $1,078.51. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.

When does Goldman Sachs report earnings next?

Goldman Sachs is expected to report on Oct 13, 2026 (23 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $16.14 per share on revenue of $17.64B. Goldman Sachs beat the earnings estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports, moving 3.5% on average across the report.

What is Goldman Sachs’s 52-week high and low?

Goldman Sachs’s 52-week high is $1,153.99 and its 52-week low is $740.01; it closed at $942.00 on Sep 18, 2026, +18.6% over the past year.

Is Goldman Sachs stock a buy right now?

Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 3 of the 6 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value and smart money), 1 as mixed (trend) and 2 as headwinds (earnings risk and seasonality). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.

Is there unusual options activity in Goldman Sachs?

Gekko flagged 1 unusual options signal in Goldman Sachs over the last 30 days, with $10.02M of flagged premium in calls and $0 in puts. The latest, bullish flow, was on Sep 3, 2026 with $10.02M in unusual premium. The signal-by-signal table is in Gekko.

How this page works

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