GS Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Goldman Sachs Group | NYSE:GS)

Goldman Sachs is a storied financial institution, founded in 1869 and best known for its role as a leading global investment bank. The firm has a sprawling reach across global financial centers and has been the leading provider of global merger and acquisition advisory services, by revenue, for the past 20 years. Since the global financial crisis, Goldman has expanded its offerings into more stable fee-based businesses like asset and wealth management, which comprised roughly 30% of post-provision revenue at the end of 2024. The bank holding company generates revenue from investment banking, global market making and trading, lending, asset management, wealth management, and a small and declining portfolio of consumer credit card loans.

Goldman Sachs Group trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol GS.

As of December 17, 2025, GS stock price declined to $870.43 with 952,640 million shares trading.

GS has a beta of 1.53, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. GS has a correlation of 0.71 to the broad based SPY ETF.

GS has a market cap of $268.79 billion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.

Last quarter Goldman Sachs Group reported $15 billion in Revenue and $12.25 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $1 billion and exceeded earnings estimates by $1.23.

In the last 3 years, GS traded as high as $919.10 and as low as $289.36.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that GS belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, DIA, SPY, IVV.

GS has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +50.8% while the SPY ETF gained +12.0%. GS has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +11.3% and +6.8%, respectively, while the SPY returned +2.1% and -1.4%, respectively.

GS support price is $862.86 and resistance is $895.44 (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 GS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.