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 October 2, 2026, M stock price declined to $22.73 with 4,195,325 million shares trading.

M has a beta of 0.77, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. M has a correlation of 0.05 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 $.40 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $92 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.05.

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, SCHD, VTI, VB.

M has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +29.1% while the SPY ETF gained +16.1%. However, in the short term, M had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -1.4% vs +3.6% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, M shares have fared better than the market returning +3.6% compared to SPY +1.0%.

M support price is $22.09 and resistance is $23.43 (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.