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Goldman Sachs Group Inc

United States · Large Cap · listed since 1999 · Revenue 12 mo. $123.5B

Price as of 11/06/2026

StockScorer score
3.6
of 10 4 of 11 points Not rated To the score
Price
$865.82
1 Y +0.3%
Market cap
$250.9B

Summary

Goldman Sachs Group Inc is below the middle of the Financial Services sector overall

39.9 of 100

Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.

Analysis

What the price requires

The price requires a lasting 19.8% return on equity, more than the average of the last 5 and 10 years.

Book value €102.3B, market value €225.2B (P/B 2.2). At a 9% discount rate, the premium over book value only pays off with a lasting 19.8% return on equity.

Required return on equity per year

19.8%

no perpetual growth

Market value breakdown€225.2B market value, price as of 11/06/2026

€102.3B book value
€122.8B premium over book value
  • ROE 5-yr avg 12.4%
  • ROE 10-yr avg 10.7%
  • required 19.8%

Valuation against its own history

Price to book 2.20×, above its usual range.

Middle half of 20 quarters: 1.01× to 1.87×, median 1.25×.

Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.

No sign supports the expectation, 1 speaks against it.

What supports it

with respect to the priced-in expectation

No indication in the stored figures.

What speaks against it

with respect to the priced-in expectation

  • Expectation above the company's own record priced in 19.8%, achieved at most 12.4%

AI summary of the 2025 annual report

The business of Goldman Sachs Group Inc according to its report

A language model selected and condensed statements from the report. Each statement carries a verbatim quote. The selection is not complete and shows the state of the report. It gives no rating and does not feed into the score.

Form 10-K, fiscal year ended 12/31/2025, filed 02/25/2026. Open the report at the SEC

Business model according to the report

  • Asset & Wealth Management earns revenue from management and other fees, incentive fees, private banking and lending, and investments.

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    Asset & Wealth Management generates revenues from management and other fees, incentive fees, private banking and lending and investments.
  • Almost all revenue in Platform Solutions comes from issuing credit cards to Apple Card customers, taking deposits from them, and from businesses that have been exited.

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    Substantially all of the revenues in Platform Solutions are from activities related to issuing credit cards to and raising deposits from Apple Card customers and related to businesses that have been exited.
  • The firm acts as a market maker, quoting prices to clients worldwide for thousands of products across all major asset classes and markets.

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    As a market maker, we provide prices to clients globally across thousands of products in all major asset classes and markets.
  • Most of the management and other fee revenue is asset-based fees on client assets the firm manages.

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    The vast majority of revenues in management and other fees consists of asset-based fees on client assets that we manage.

Customers according to the report

  • The firm seeks long-term relationships with a diverse global group of institutional clients, including corporations, governments, states and municipalities.

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    We seek to develop and maintain long-term relationships with a diverse global group of institutional clients, including corporations, governments, states and municipalities.
  • The firm also offers tailored wealth advisory services, mainly to clients with very high net worth.

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    We also provide tailored wealth advisory services, primarily to ultra-high-net worth clients.

Competition according to the report

  • The financial services industry and all of the firm's businesses are intensely competitive, and the firm expects this to continue.

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    The financial services industry and all of our businesses are intensely competitive, and we expect them to remain so.
  • Competitors include brokers and dealers, investment banks, commercial banks, credit card issuers, insurers, investment advisers, mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity and private credit funds, merchant banks, and financial technology and internet companies.

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    Our competitors include brokers and dealers, investment banking firms, commercial banks, credit card issuers, insurance companies, investment advisers, mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, private credit funds, merchant banks and financial technology and other internet-based companies.
  • The firm competes on factors such as transaction execution, client experience, products and services, innovation, reputation and price.

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    we compete based on a number of factors, including transaction execution, client experience, products and services, innovation, reputation and price.

Risks according to the report

  • Concentration of risk raises the chance of large losses in the firm's market-making, underwriting, investing and financing activities.

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    Concentration of risk increases the potential for significant losses in our market-making, underwriting, investing and financing activities.
  • Nearly all of the firm's investing and market-making positions and some loans are marked to market daily or periodically, so falling asset values quickly affect earnings unless the exposure is effectively hedged.

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    Substantially all of our investing and market-making positions and a portion of our loans are marked-to-market on a daily or other periodic basis and declines in asset values directly and promptly impact our earnings, unless we have effectively “hedged” our exposures to those declines.
  • As of December 2025, counterparties could have asked for extra collateral or termination payments of $224 million on net derivative liabilities under bilateral agreements if the firm's credit ratings fell by one notch.

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    As of December 2025, our counterparties could have called for additional collateral or termination payments related to our net derivative liabilities under bilateral agreements in an aggregate amount of $224 million in the event of a one-notch downgrade of our credit ratings
  • Group Inc. is a holding company and depends on dividends, loans and other payments from its subsidiaries to fund share buybacks, dividends and debt payments.

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    Group Inc. is a holding company and, therefore, depends on dividends, distributions, loans and other payments from its subsidiaries to fund share repurchases and dividend payments and to fund payments on its obligations, including debt obligations.

Since the last quarter

Q2 → Q3 2026

Mostly better than the previous quarter: 1 of 1 change for the better.

  • Shares outstanding305M → 301M−1.3%better

3 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., EBIT margin, Return on equity

Derivation

How the sector comparison is derived

Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.

Price as of 11/06/2026.

Profitability39.9below the middleEarns less than the sector: FCF margin −37.75%, sector 19.82%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Return on equity13.74%12.46%Rank 59
Return on capital (Greenblatt)229.44%59.04%Rank 77
EBIT margin17.47%23.06%Rank 34
FCF margin−37.75%19.82%Rank 6
Gross margin47.48%65.53%Rank 24
Growth48.4around the middleGrows about as fast as the sector.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Revenue growth, 1 year−1.38%7.39%Rank 22
Earnings growth, 3 years per year19.81%15.20%Rank 62
Earnings growth, 5 years per year15.55%15.17%Rank 50
Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings)1.65%1.25%Rank 60
Valuation44.0around the middleValued about like the sector.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Earnings yield6.25%6.47%Rank 46
FCF yield−18.82%7.16%Rank 4
EV/saleslower is better1.892.82Rank 59
EV/EBITlower is better10.8014.24Rank 67
Momentum16.4below the middleShare price doing worse than the sector: Share price, 3 months −11.59%, sector 0.45%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Share price, 1 year0.33%7.80%Rank 38
Share price, 6 months−7.06%8.71%Rank 12
Share price, 3 months−11.59%0.45%Rank 6
Distance from 52-week high−24.85%−10.68%Rank 10
Quality57.2around the middleQuality about like the sector.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Accruals (Sloan)lower is better6.11%1.23%Rank 17
Change in share countlower is better−4.80%−0.60%Rank 86
Dividend streak in years155Rank 82
Price reaction to results, market-adjusted−0.34%0.00%Rank 43
Balance sheet & risk33.7below the middleMore risk than the sector: Debt to equity 4.88, sector 0.90.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Equity ratio6.91%9.21%Rank 38
Net debt/EBITDAlower is better−0.620.12Rank 61
Debt to equitylower is better4.880.90Rank 8
Volatility, 1 yearlower is better31.98%25.95%Rank 29

Ten years in figures

Revenue from $37.9B (2016) to $125.1B (2025), 14.2% a year.

Fiscal years, amounts in USD
YearRevenue, $BNet income, $BReturn on equityShares
201637.97.48.5%435M
201742.84.35.2%409M
201852.410.511.6%390M
201953.98.59.4%376M
202053.59.59.9%360M
202165.021.619.7%356M
202268.711.39.6%358M
2023108.48.57.3%346M
2024126.914.311.7%334M
2025125.117.213.7%318M
3.6 / 10Not ratedStockScorer score4 of 11 points

3 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built

Goldman Sachs Group Inc mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.

This stock · Profitability: 67%This stock · Growth: 50%This stock · Valuation: 0%This stock · Momentum: 0%Median of all stocks · Profitability: 33%Median of all stocks · Growth: 0%Median of all stocks · Valuation: 0%Median of all stocks · Momentum: 0%50%100%ProfitabilityGrowthValuationMomentumThis stockMedian of all stocks

How Goldman Sachs Group Inc's score is built

This is how the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set, calculates the points for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.

3 of 7 rules met

4 of 11 points

The rule “Exclusion: financial and real estate stocks” applies. The stock is therefore not rated regardless of the points scored.

  1. Free cash flow yield above the sector mediannot met0 of 2 points
  2. Return on capital (Greenblatt ROC) above the sector medianmet2 of 2 points
  3. Return on equity above the sector medianmet1 of 1 point
  4. Free cash flow margin above the sector mediannot met0 of 2 points
  5. Revenue growth above 15%not met0 of 2 points
  6. 3-year earnings growth above 12% p.a.met1 of 1 point
  7. 12-month share price more than 20 percentage points ahead of the marketnot met0 of 1 point
  8. Exclusion: financial and real estate stocksapplies

Detail data

How does Goldman Sachs Group Inc stock perform across 18 strategies?

Excerpt from 18 strategies checked. The full evaluation is visible after a free sign-up.

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  • Defensive: Low Volatility
  • Moat Quality
  • Dividend Aristocrats & Continuity
  • Mohanram G-Score: Growth Quality
  • Growth Momentum (CAN SLIM principle)
  • Trending Value: Value + Momentum
  • Altman Z-Score: Stress Test
  • Acquirer's Multiple: EV/EBIT Deep Value
  • Earnings Quality: Accrual Check (Sloan)
  • High-Growth / Rule of 40
  • Levermann Strategy (13 Criteria)
  • Undervalued Stocks: Multi-Factor Check

Goldman Sachs Group Inc key metrics: P/E, P/B and equity ratio

Selected fundamental metrics for Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

MetricStockSector
P/E ratio16.015.2
P/B ratio2.21.8
Return on equity (ROE)13.7%12.5%
Equity ratio6.9%9.2%
Debt-to-equity (D/E)4.880.90
Dividend yield2.1%3.3%

Similar stocks in Financial Services

How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.

SymbolCompanyRating
GSGoldman Sachs Group Incthis page
MSMorgan StanleyLow5.5
SCHWCharles Schwab CorpLow4.5
IBKRInteractive Brokers Group IncLow6.4
HOODRobinhood Markets Inclocked
MQG.AXMacquarie Group Ltdlocked

Frequently asked questions about Goldman Sachs Group Inc stock

How does Goldman Sachs Group Inc stock (GS) score in the StockScorer model?
Goldman Sachs Group Inc stock reaches a StockScorer score of 3.6 out of 10, but is not rated (exclusion rule: Exclusion: financial and real estate stocks).
What is Goldman Sachs Group Inc's P/E ratio?
Goldman Sachs Group Inc's P/E ratio is 16.0. The Financial Services sector median is 15.2.
What sector is Goldman Sachs Group Inc in?
Goldman Sachs Group Inc is assigned to the Financial Services sector. Its rank within the sector is 39.9 out of 100: 100 means the stock leads its peer group of large and mid-cap sector stocks in every measured area.

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