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The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

$GS·$264B·Financial - Capital Markets·Financial Services
$881.26-1.1%YTD+0.9%1Y+16.1%
Price updated 7h ago·X counts updated 5d ago
GSGS
$GSThe Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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Top X posts

The complete picture of $GS on X — how loud the conversation is right now, how it has trended over the last two weeks, and which way the crowd is leaning.

1,124X posts · last 7 days
Sep 29Oct 11
Chatter Meter
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How loud $GS's conversation on X is versus its own normal — 1× is typical, higher means busier. Right now it's running louder than usual, louder than 99% of tracked names.

Bullish sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data8 posts analyzed · as of 2026-09-16

Goldman Sachs sits as more of a backdrop than the story — hosting the Communacopia + Technology conference with newsworthy talks from Applied Materials, Google Cloud and others — while traders profit on the same tape. Bulls take a 1060c weekly from $2 to $3.50 inside 30 minutes and are swinging longs from yesterday. One structural thread argues Robinhood underwriting the Oura IPO could threaten Goldman's institutional-distribution moat, but it is a passing risk, not a bear thesis.

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AI verdictAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

TickerTalks' own read on what's driving $GS — fundamentals, momentum, or an event — and whether it agrees with the X crowd.

Proven numbersEvent coming upAI verdict · as of 2026-10-03

A known event soon (earnings, a ruling, etc.) will likely decide the next move.

Goldman is sitting on a Q3 print days away with earnings surprises running at 45% — the setup is more interesting than the flat YTD suggests.

Goldman Sachs is the pure-play Wall Street investment bank — advisory, trading, and asset management — and the 2026 story is the backdrop finally cooperating: markets are at highs, deal activity is picking up, and the Fed stress-test revamp lightens the capital overhang.

  • The earnings print is where the story shows: Q2 EPS of $20.98 beat Street estimates by 45%, and the trailing print beat by 6.5% — these are the kinds of surprises that happen when trading and ECM activity are both running hot into a benign market setup.
  • The capital-return pedigree is doing the quiet work: another dividend boost on top of ongoing buybacks and a $700M Dallas campus commitment say management is positioning for a durable earnings expansion, not a one-quarter rip.

The Oct 13 Q3 print lands days from now. A repeat 30%+ EPS surprise plus commentary on ECM and M&A pipeline is what shifts the stock from 'flat YTD' to a reaccelerating setup; a soft trading quarter or any capital-return pause is where the trade waits for the next cycle.

Agrees with X sentimentThe bullish setup around the Communacopia tape and ongoing capital return is grounded. The Robinhood/Oura IPO moat-threat is a real question but a long-cycle one, not relevant to the Oct 13 print.

What to watch: Oct 13 Q3 earnings — trading revenue direction, investment-banking fee growth, and buyback pacing. A 30%+ EPS surprise with ECM/M&A commentary is the trigger; soft trading is the first warning.

On the calendar: 2026-10-13 — Q3 earnings

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Elite investment bank serving corporations and governments with advisory, trading, asset management, and consumer banking services.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Financial - Capital Markets sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $GS.

Financial - Capital Markets · Financial Services

No material change from last week — digital-asset platforms drive growth as retail crypto trading and stablecoin adoption (USDC via CRCL) expand.

What this means for $GS

Partial — Elite investment bank serving corporations and governments with advisory, trading, asset management, and consumer banking services.

Top industry ETF

$IAIiShares U.S. Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF
-1.4%YTD
+3.3%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
17.5How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
0.9%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
20.5%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
-13.7%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
2.8Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
14.6%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
55.5%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
6.1Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q3 2026Oct 13, 2026$17.01$12.86+32.3%
Q2 2026Jul 14, 2026$20.98$14.54+44.3%
Q1 2026Apr 13, 2026$17.55$16.47+6.6%
Q4 2025Jan 15, 2026$14.01$11.70+19.7%
Next earningsThu, Jan 21·consensus EPS $15.62

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$17.2B-45.4%98.2%37.7%$17.74$-32.4B
Q4 FY25$30.1B-6.6%51.7%19.4%$14.21$-16.8B
Q3 FY25$32.2B+2.0%46.2%16.8%$12.42$2.1B
Q2 FY25$31.3B+0.3%45.4%15.9%$11.07$5.2B

Forward consensus

4-year forecast · up to 16 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$70.8B$68.6B – $72.4B$66.30$61.77 – $73.4816
FY27$72.8B$68.5B – $75.4B$72.28$66.50 – $82.6715
FY28$74.7B$67.0B – $78.8B$77.67$67.18 – $87.2613
FY29$79.0B$73.3B – $81.6B$83.56$75.71 – $87.1011

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.1.0×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.34%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.-9.6%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.-8.2%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatHigh float · 289.8M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.8% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β1.285-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellAug 28Ericka T LeslieChief Administrative Officer600 sh$620KSellAug 4Ericka T LeslieChief Administrative Officer175 sh$184KSellJul 15Ericka T LeslieChief Administrative Officer250 sh$288KSellMay 14Denis P. ColemanCFO6.9K sh$6.7MSellMay 6Kathryn H. RuemmlerChief Legal Officer, GC14.3K sh$13.4MSellMay 1Sheara J FredmanChief Accounting Officer10.3K sh$9.6MSellMay 1David M SolomonCEO3.5K sh$3.2MSellMay 1Kathryn H. RuemmlerChief Legal Officer, GC683 sh$635KSellApr 23Alex S GoltenCHIEF RISK OFFICER1.1K sh$1.0M
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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KPress release / Reg FDOct 138-K — Item 2.02: Earnings release · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
8-KCharter amendmentAug 118-K — Item 5.03: Charter amendment
AI summary

Goldman Sachs (GS) filed a Certificate of Elimination with the Delaware Secretary of State on August 11, 2026, removing certain series provisions from its Restated Certificate of Incorporation. This eliminates a completed or redeemed preferred stock series from Goldman's charter, a routine corporate housekeeping action.

3New insider — initial holdingsAug 43
AI summary

Goldman Sachs Group Inc and affiliated entities (Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Goldman Sachs Asset Management LP, Broad Street Principal Investments, West Street Life Sciences I LP, and related vehicles) filed initial statements of beneficial ownership (Form 3) in Attovia Therapeutics Inc (ATTO) on August 4, 2026. The entities collectively hold Series B Preferred Stock convertible into 1,957,140 shares of common stock and Series C Preferred Stock convertible into 478,501 shares, all held indirectly through the West Street Life Sciences fund. Each entity is registered as both a director-affiliated party and 10% owner. This confirms Goldman's West Street Life Sciences fund as a significant early-stage backer of Attovia — a material institutional stake in a small biotech that warrants monitoring for future financing or strategic activity.

8-KCharter amendmentJul 278-K — Item 3.03 · Item 5.03: Charter amendment
AI summary

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) filed an 8-K on July 23, 2026 reporting the issuance of Series AA Preferred Stock (Item 5.03 — amendment to articles of incorporation), which triggers the standard restriction under Item 3.03 limiting GS's ability to declare or pay dividends on, or repurchase, common stock until the preferred dividend is paid. The filing also references Goldman Sachs Capital II's 5.793% Fixed-to-Floating Rate APEX securities and Capital III's Floating Rate APEX securities. This is a routine preferred stock administrative action; the new preferred series creates customary dividend preference restrictions on common stock but is not dilutive to common equity.

8-KPress release / Reg FDJul 148-K — Item 2.02: Earnings release · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

Goldman Sachs Group (GS) — 8-K (Items 2.02, 7.01) furnishing Q2 2026 earnings results and a Reg FD investor presentation announced on July 14, 2026. Results disclosed via press releases and exhibits furnished under Regulation FD. Material — major bank quarterly earnings disclosure.

3New insider — initial holdingsJul 23
AI summary

Ericka T. Leslie, Chief Administrative Officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, filed a Form 3 initial beneficial ownership statement as of July 1, 2026. Administrative initial ownership disclosure.

3New insider — initial holdingsJun 173
AI summary

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. filed a Form 3 initial ownership statement as a 10%+ owner of Aperture AC (Nasdaq: APUR), a blank-check SPAC, as of June 12, 2026, disclosing indirect beneficial ownership of 1,057,597 Class A ordinary shares ($0.0001 par value). Goldman's 10%+ stake in a SPAC at this stage is typically associated with an initial IPO anchor or backstop commitment. Routine Section 16 filing establishing Goldman's reporting obligation — indirect ownership through affiliated funds is standard for institutional SPAC participants.

424B4Prospectus supplement (offering)May 29424B4
AI summary

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. issued $4,232,000 of Callable Fixed Rate Notes due May 14, 2046 under its Medium-Term Notes, Series N program at 5.825% per annum, with an initial public price of 100% and underwriting discount of approximately 2.27% ($96,024). Interest is payable annually on May 29, with the first payment on May 29, 2027. Goldman Sachs may call the notes at par on any quarterly date from May 29, 2029 onward. This is a small retail structured note offering with a 20-year term; the callable feature means the investor bears reinvestment risk if rates fall.

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Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

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