GIL Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Gildan Activewear Class A Sub. Vot. | NYSE:GIL)

Gildan is a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of basic apparel, including T-shirts, underwear, socks, and hosiery. It is a leader in blank T-shirts, sweatshirts, and other apparel to wholesalers, major clothing brands, and printers (printwear). Gildan also sells branded clothing through retail and direct-to-consumer channels, a business that has been greatly enhanced by the Hanesbrands acquisition. Gildan's brands include Hanes, Bali, Maidenform, Playtex, Gildan, American Apparel, Comfort Colors, and Goldtoe. Gildan produces most of its clothing at factories in Latin America but has been ramping up production at its new facility in Bangladesh. Incorporated in 1984, the Montreal-based company operates internationally but generates 90% of its sales in the US in 2025.

Gildan Activewear Class A Sub. Vot. trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol GIL.

As of May 1, 2026, GIL stock price declined to $61.51 with 1,416,719 million shares trading.

GIL has a beta of 1.19, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. GIL has a correlation of 0.31 to the broad based SPY ETF.

GIL has a market cap of $11.39 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Gildan Activewear Class A Sub. Vot. reported $1 billion in Revenue and $.43 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $18 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.08.

In the last 3 years, GIL traded as high as $73.70 and as low as $26.98.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that GIL belongs to (by Net Assets): SMIG, OSCV, DFIC, SCDV, PID.

GIL has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +35.7% while the SPY ETF gained +30.4%. However, in the short term, GIL had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -5.0% vs +4.4% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, GIL shares have fared better than the market returning +2.7% compared to SPY +1.5%.

GIL support price is $60.65 and resistance is $63.33 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that GIL shares will trade within this expected range on the day.