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The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

$GS·$311B·Financial - Capital Markets·Financial Services
$1070.74-2.3%YTD+23.9%1Y+54.5%
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2026-07-09: 217 posts2026-07-10: 311 posts2026-07-11: 117 posts2026-07-12: 258 posts2026-07-13: 452 posts2026-07-14: 820 posts2026-07-15: 283 posts2,472+47%
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GSGS
$GSThe Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
$1,070.74-2.26%2.5k posts+47%
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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 2026-07-17

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

The IB pipeline finally has a specific tailwind — AI-infrastructure deal flow is the driver.

Goldman Sachs is the marquee US investment bank — M&A advisory, capital markets, trading, asset/wealth management. This year the AI-infrastructure deal cycle turned into a specific IB-pipeline tailwind, and the stock is at 87% of its 52-week range as a result.

Why the setup is aligned:

  • Fundamentals justify the multiple: 17.5x TTM P/E with 20% operating margin is not stretched for the deal-flow environment, and the Q pace across the bank complex (JPM, BAC, MS, GS) confirms the earnings cycle is real.
  • The AI-CapEx read-through is the specific catalyst: SemiAnalysis's $11.1T cumulative AI-CapEx-through-2029 estimate sits above Goldman's own numbers — the IB pipeline for AI-related M&A, financing and equity issuance is larger than sell-side is modeling.
  • The tape is voting: up 24% YTD, 7% above the 50-day, 21% above the 200-day, sitting at 87% of the 52-week range — the pattern of a name being repositioned into, not chased.
  • The check is sector-cycle risk: bank earnings are historically the earliest signal of a broader deal-flow inflection — a soft print from a peer would compress the whole complex, not just one name.

What keeps the leg extending is deal-announcement flow around AI infrastructure and continued equity-issuance activity. What breaks it is a peer showing a specific soft trading-desk quarter or fresh regulatory action — either spreads across the complex.

Agrees with X sentimentX is bullish on the bank-earnings-season kickoff, the AI CapEx read-through, and the options flow, and the fundamentals genuinely support the setup. The one honest limitation is that the entire complex is correlated — a peer's soft print would hit GS the same way, so the tail risk isn't idiosyncratic.

What to watch: Peer bank prints through July — any bank-complex miss on trading or IB revenue is the specific check on the GS thesis. A confirmed sector-wide beat extends the leg; a peer miss compresses the whole complex, not just GS.

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.

Bullish sentiment23 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-15

Goldman Sachs chatter is bullish into Q2 earnings. Bulls point to a strong bank earnings season kickoff (JPM/BAC/GS/WFC/C/MS), with GS +20.17% YTD (behind only MS at 25.36% among big banks). SemiAnalysis' updated $11.1T cumulative AI infrastructure CapEx-through-2029 estimate is above GS's own estimates - a bullish read-through for GS's investment-banking pipeline. GS raised SOFI's PT to $21 (Neutral) - community reads GS Neutrals as 'great opportunities to buy under.' Options flow: 1,300 August 300 calls for $300k premium. Bans on staff prediction-market bets on finance/war frame GS as reinforcing regulatory line - net-bullish for DKNG/FLUT read-through.

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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 — Robinhood reporting its highest single-day signups confirms the retail infrastructure layer directly benefits from high-profile IPO cycles.

What this means for $GS

Partial — Elite investment bank serving corporations and governments with advisory, trading, asset management, and consumer banking services; exposure exists but is diluted by diverse end markets and revenue mix.

Top industry ETF

$IAIiShares U.S. Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF
+6.8%YTD
+12.0%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 $14.06

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$64.8B$63.5B – $66.9B$60.41$57.42 – $64.7914
FY27$68.1B$65.7B – $71.5B$66.42$61.89 – $73.2415
FY28$69.5B$68.9B – $70.1B$72.08$65.88 – $82.9810
FY29$71.2B$67.9B – $74.4B$73.18$68.78 – $77.475

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.1.1×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.87%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.+6.8%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.+21.4%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatHigh float · 298.4M 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.β1.295-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.FilingActive offeringA shelf registration (S-3 / S-3ASR / S-1) or prospectus supplement (424B*) was filed in the last 90 days — the company is registered to (or actively) issuing new shares. Dilution risk.

Insider activity

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

Recent transactions

SellMay 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$1.0MSellFeb 11Rogers John F.w.President3.0K sh$2.8M
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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 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.

8-KCharter amendmentMay 128-K — Item 5.03: Charter amendment
AI summary

GS filed an 8-K (Item 5.03) dated 2026-05-12. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year. On May 11, 2026, the Company filed a Certificate of Elimination to its Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware eliminating from the Restated Certificate of Incorporation all matters set forth in the Certificate of.

8-KShareholder voteMay 18-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

GS held its Annual Meeting of stockholders around 2026-05-01 (8-K Item 5.07). Routine governance event — monitor for unusually high withhold votes as an activist signal.

3/ANew insider — initial holdingsApr 243/A
AI summary

X Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non- filed a Form 3/A (amended) for GS on 2026-04-24, initiating required Section 16 reporting. Role: of Reporting Person. Beneficial ownership covers 2,829 shares. Form 3 is a mandatory administrative filing upon first becoming an insider or 10%+ holder; it does not reflect a purchase or sale event.

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Recent news

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

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