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The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

$GS·$307B·Financial - Capital Markets·Financial Services
$1033.99-0.7%YTD+19.1%1Y+37.6%
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GSGS
$GSThe Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
$1,033.99-0.66%385 posts+6%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $GS, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Proven numbersAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-08-30

The move is getting stronger, with heavier trading behind it.

Banks are catching a bid and Goldman is leading — the tape is doing the talking.

Goldman Sachs is the market-leading investment bank whose business tracks capital-markets activity, M&A, and trading — all of which have been broadly firm this year. The stock is +19% YTD and +38% TTM at ~$1,034, and the sell-side and tape are both leaning further bullish.

  • The revenue base is firing on all cylinders: quarterly revenue ran $31.3B / $32.2B / $30.1B / $17.2B (Q1 seasonally lower with fewer capital-markets fees), gross margin at 56%, and quarterly EPS moved $11.07 / $12.42 / $14.21 / $17.74 — analysts model $71.2B and $69.77 EPS for the full year, so at $1,034 the stock is at roughly 15x forward, still not stretched for a name at this cadence.
  • The setup is a real breakout: bank stocks broadly are firm on the persistent-inflation trade, and GS is being cited as leading a group breakout with a $1,080 near-term target — that's the technical setup that matched a rating upgrade to Strong Buy.
  • Corporate housekeeping supports the framing: a Certificate of Elimination filed with Delaware and multiple Form 3 filings for the asset-management-and-affiliated entities are cleanup activities, not stress signals, and net institutional buying is still coming in.

An Oct 13 Q3 print that carries capital-markets fees and any incremental M&A backlog color extends the run through the $1,080 target; a Fed pivot that pulls net interest income sharply, or a soft trading quarter, is what caps the current move.

Agrees with X sentimentX's bullish framing tracks the mechanics — the group-strength breakout, the $1,080 target, and the rating upgrade are all real; the fraud-conspiracy tape chatter is background noise, not a fundamental counter.

What to watch: The Oct 13 Q3 print — capital-markets fees, trading revenue, and M&A pipeline commentary. A Fed pivot or a soft trading quarter is what caps the move.

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

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Mixed sentiment22 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-30

Goldman Sachs' thread is a debate between franchise-momentum bulls and scandal chroniclers. Bulls flag the $410M LCN Capital acquisition at ~14% of FPAUM, leading a $240M Series raise for Owner at a $2.3B valuation, a clean chart break-out, and 'always buy the dip' talk; skeptics dwell on an SEC subpoena over Situational Awareness's near-collapse, 1MDB legacy hires and repeated fraud framing. An Optum-adjacent 'cognitive-atrophy' warning from a GS exec is a rare internal caution.

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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

IPO and M&A activity — the primary revenue driver for capital markets firms — is recovering as equity market strength rebuilds corporate confidence and sponsor exit windows open. Retail trading volume (HOOD's record signups) confirms the infrastructure layer captures incremental activity.

What this means for $GS

Partial — insurance earnings follow combined ratio and investment income dynamics, partially correlated to industry macro; The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Top industry ETF

$IAIiShares U.S. Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF
+5.0%YTD
+11.8%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
Q2 2026Jul 14, 2026$20.98$14.47+45.0%
Q1 2026Apr 13, 2026$17.55$16.47+6.6%
Q4 2025Jan 15, 2026$14.01$11.70+19.7%
Q3 2025Oct 14, 2025$12.25$11.03+11.1%
Next earningsTue, Oct 13·consensus EPS $16.42

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 15 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$71.2B$65.3B – $74.7B$69.77$65.65 – $73.7714
FY27$73.1B$69.2B – $77.2B$73.07$67.02 – $75.0815
FY28$74.5B$67.1B – $83.9B$76.94$65.72 – $95.4410
FY29$77.1B$70.8B – $82.7B$77.09$68.88 – $84.355

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.0.5×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.72%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.-1.6%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.+9.7%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatHigh float · 298.5M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.3% 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.β1.295-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 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$1.0MSellApr 17Alex 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-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.

3New insider — initial holdingsMay 263
AI summary

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC filed a Form 3 initial ownership statement reporting that on May 15, 2026, they exceeded 10% beneficial ownership of the outstanding ordinary shares of QuasarEdge Acquisition Corporation (QRED), acting as 10% owner and director. The Ordinary Shares were held directly by Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and indirectly by GS Group. No specific share count is disclosed in the excerpt. This is a routine Section 16 disclosure required upon crossing the 10% threshold in a SPAC.

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Recent news

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

BNP Paribas Has $16.74 Million Holdings in The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. $GSdefenseworld.net·2d agoAll You Need to Know About Goldman (GS) Rating Upgrade to Strong Buyzacks.com·3d agoBlue Edge Capital LLC Invests $2.22 Million in The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. $GSdefenseworld.net·3d agoBamco Inc. NY Buys Shares of 800 The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. $GSdefenseworld.net·3d agoWhy Goldman Sachs (GS) is a Top Stock for the Long-Termzacks.com·4d ago

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