GS The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS) trend channel, buy level and 3-month target on Trade The Path. Sector: Financial Services. Listed on BATS. Levels below are fitted to this ticker's own swing highs and lows (Theil–Sen, log-price), then projected 3 months. On this symbol, 7 comparable calls have settled; 71.4% reached the published sell target. Information only, not financial advice.
Broken down below, rising on both timeframes
Price has closed below the channel. Support has failed — treat the buy target with caution.
The next few months are read from the last 12 months, not the last 9 months: that channel fits this stock's recent turns at least as well (70% against 67%) and it is the one price is respecting now. The last 9 months stay as context: rising, +35% a year. The target of US$1,077 is below the nearest ceiling (US$1,236), so it does not depend on a breakout. What would overturn this: a close below US$1,032 — the floor of the channel being read — after which the trend, not the entry, is what was wrong.
- 9 months
- US$934.00 – US$1,246 Rising channel, +35% a year
- 12 months read from
- US$1,032 – US$1,236 Rising channel, +42% a year
- Position in that channel
- -45% below the floor of it — 0% is the floor, 100% the ceiling
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (9 months)
- Lower trend line (9 months)
- The same lines over the last 12 months
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Suggested path
Buy now
US$940.60
last close · 16 Sept 2026
Channel buy is US$1,016; last close is the better price available now.
Our target
US$1,077
by 23 Sept 2026
Projected move
14.5%
gross, before costs
Last close is our buy — the best price available now.
The lines are drawn where this stock has actually turned: 3 touches on the ceiling, 2 on the floor, each fitted to the slope that catches the most of them. Buying one average daily range below its 50-day mean, on heavier volume than usual and while it is still above its 200-day mean, has come up 791 times; measured against the 6% floor — the least a call has to be worth to be worth making, not what it aims at — 73% cleared it, typically in 34 days, with price going about 5% against the entry along the way (63% in the worst case we have on record). Trades that have not reached the target within 3 months are counted as misses, whatever they are worth at the time. The prices above are this stock’s own — its average, its volatility — but the setup is the same one we apply everywhere: derived on eight unrelated tickers, then confirmed on 87 others it was never fitted to. We deliberately do not tune it to each stock: doing so scores worse on history the tuning never saw — 58% against 71% — because it fits the past rather than the future. On this stock the setup has come up 11 times so far, reaching target 91% of the time. The sell price comes from where this stock is projected to be, not from a minimum worth taking: the fitted path reaches 29% above the entry within 90 days, and of the sizes that path supports, 6% is the one that has returned the most per day of money tied up here — measured over the 10 times this entry has come up on this chart, reached 90% of the time, typically in 7 days. Smaller sizes got there sooner but paid less for the weeks they used; larger ones need a break above the projected ceiling, which is not the base case. The date published is whichever is later: that typical time, or the day the projected path itself reaches the price. It is a prediction, so it can be revised: if the run tops out before it gets there, the target is cut to what is actually on the table and you are told the same day. An ordinary pullback is not treated as topping out — those go on to make a new high about 8 times in 10, so they are ridden through. What triggers the revision is price closing below its 50-day trend and staying there, after which the odds of recovery fall to roughly 3 in 10.
On this stock's own history these rules produced 7 settled calls, of which 5 reached target (71.4%), with an average best move of 10%. See the full record.
- Upper line touches
- 3
- Lower line touches
- 2
- Fit confidence
- 67%
- Fitted
- 16 Sept 2026
About The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS) operates as a prominent global financial services firm, offering an extensive array of services to corporations, financial institutions, governmental bodies, and individuals worldwide. The company's operations are organized into four primary divisions: Investment Banking, Global Markets, Asset Management, and Consumer & Wealth Management. The Investment Banking segment furnishes strategic advisory services covering intricate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense strategies, restructurings, and spin-offs. It also extends various lending facilities, including middle-market, relationship, and acquisition financing, in addition to transaction banking services. This division further specializes in underwriting, assisting clients with equity offerings for common, preferred, and convertible securities, as well as debt offerings encompassing investment-grade, high-yield, bank/bridge loans, and emerging market debt instruments, alongside the creation of structured securities. Within its Global Markets division, Goldman Sachs engages in client execution activities for both cash and derivative instruments, provides solutions for credit and interest rate products, and offers comprehensive equity intermediation, financing, clearing, settlement, and custody services. This segment also transacts in products linked to mortgages, foreign exchange, commodities, and equities. The Asset Management segment is responsible for managing assets across a diverse spectrum of classes, including equities, fixed income, hedge funds, credit funds, private equity, real estate, currencies, and commodities. It delivers tailored investment advisory solutions and makes direct investments in corporate entities, real estate ventures, and infrastructure projects. The Consumer & Wealth Management segment provides individual clients with wealth advisory and banking services. These include financial planning, investment management, deposit-taking, and lending. It also offers private banking services, unsecured loans, and accepts savings and time deposits. Founded in 1869, the company's corporate headquarters are located in New York, New York.
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Financial - Capital Markets
- CEO
- David Michael Solomon
- Employees
- 46,200
- Country
- US
Scorecard
Our own pillar scores, computed from the fundamentals below. They are not Morningstar ratings — that data is licensed and we do not redistribute it.
- Valuation
- 58/100
- Profitability
- 66/100
- Financial health
- 1/100
- Cash generation
- 0/100
Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$305.03B
- Enterprise value
- US$859.64B
- Beta
- 1.29
- Avg volume
- 2.05M
- Revenue per share
- 392.99
- Dividend yield
- 1.64%
- 52-week range
- 721.16-1153.99
- Exchange
- NYSE
Key ratios
- P/E (TTM)
- 15.75
- PEG
- 0.37
- Price / sales
- 2.59
- Price / book
- 2.53
- EV / EBITDA
- 27.38
- Gross margin
- 57.29%
- Operating margin
- 24.81%
- Net margin
- 17.78%
- Current ratio
- 0.83
- Quick ratio
- 0.83
- Debt / equity
- 6.04
- Interest cover
- 0.43
Income statement
Balance sheet
| Year | Total assets | Total liabilities | Total equity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | US$1.81T | US$1.68T | US$124.97B |
| 2024 | US$1.68T | US$1.55T | US$122.00B |
| 2023 | US$1.64T | US$1.52T | US$116.91B |
| 2022 | US$1.44T | US$1.32T | US$117.19B |
| 2021 | US$1.46T | US$1.35T | US$109.93B |
Cash flow
| Year | Operating cash flow | Free cash flow | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | -US$45.15B | -US$47.22B | US$17.18B |
| 2024 | -US$13.21B | -US$15.30B | US$14.28B |
| 2023 | -US$12.59B | -US$14.90B | US$8.52B |
| 2022 | US$8.71B | US$4.96B | US$11.26B |
| 2021 | US$6.30B | US$1.63B | US$21.64B |
EPS forecasts
| Period | Est. EPS | Est. revenue | Analysts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | US$36.90 | US$51.97B | 12 |
| 2025 | US$48.85 | US$59.05B | 13 |
| 2026 | US$70.23 | US$71.55B | 17 |
| 2027 | US$73.34 | US$73.39B | 17 |
| 2028 | US$77.21 | US$74.89B | 10 |
| 2029 | US$77.09 | US$77.13B | 4 |
Analyst view
- Target (mean)
- US$1,202
- Target (high)
- US$1,325
- Target (low)
- US$995.00
- Strong buy
- 0
- Buy
- 22
- Hold
- 30
- Sell
- 3
Trend lines are fitted statistically to past swing highs and lows and projected forward on the assumption the same rhythm continues. It often does not. This is information, not advice.