M Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Macy's | NYSE:M)

Founded in 1858 and based in New York City, Macy's operates about 430 eponymous stores, 60 stores under the Bloomingdale's (full-price and outlet) and Bloomie's names, and 170 freestanding Bluemercury specialty beauty stores. Macy's also operates e-commerce sites and licenses Bloomingdale's stores in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. Women's apparel, accessories, shoes, cosmetics, and fragrances constituted 64% of 2025 net retail sales.

Macy's trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol M.

As of August 20, 2026, M stock price declined to $22.72 with 1,614,361 million shares trading.

M has a beta of 0.70, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. M has a correlation of 0.03 to the broad based SPY ETF.

M has a market cap of $5.99 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Macy's reported $5 billion in Revenue and $.13 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $69 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.11.

In the last 3 years, M traded as high as $26.59 and as low as $9.76.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that M belongs to (by Net Assets): AVUV, IJH, VTI, SCHD, VB.

M has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +80.0%, while the SPY ETF gained +20.8%. In the last 3 month period, M beat the market returning +20.3%, while SPY returned +4.6%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks M has underperformed the stock market by returning -10.9%, while SPY returned -0.6%.

M support price is $22.84 and resistance is $23.96 (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 M shares will trade within this expected range on the day.