How to buy Genco Shipping-and-Trading stock

Genco Shipping & Trading Limited is a marine shipping business based in the US. Genco Shipping-and-Trading shares (GNK) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Genco Shipping-and-Trading employs 1,255 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$368.8 million.

How to buy shares in Genco Shipping-and-Trading

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Genco Shipping-and-Trading. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: GNK. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Genco Shipping-and-Trading reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. Weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Genco Shipping-and-Trading, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Genco Shipping-and-Trading. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Genco Shipping-and-Trading share price

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Genco Shipping-and-Trading shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-02-23.

52-week range	USD$4.2282 - USD$10.95
50-day moving average	USD$8.6121
200-day moving average	USD$7.536
Wall St. target price	USD$11.46
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	USD$0.235 (2.26%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-0.441

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Genco Shipping-and-Trading financials

Revenue TTM	USD$368.8 million
Operating margin TTM	0.82%
Gross profit TTM	USD$104.1 million
Return on assets TTM	0.13%
Return on equity TTM	-17.55%
Profit margin	-43.05%
Book value	$19.406
Market capitalisation	USD$414.3 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Genco Shipping-and-Trading shares

There are currently 832,247 Genco Shipping-and-Trading shares held short by investors – that's known as Genco Shipping-and-Trading's "short interest". This figure is 183.5% up from 293,533 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Genco Shipping-and-Trading shares can be evaluated.

Genco Shipping-and-Trading's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Genco Shipping-and-Trading's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Genco Shipping-and-Trading shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Genco Shipping-and-Trading shares traded daily (recently around 1.2 million). Genco Shipping-and-Trading's SIR currently stands at 0.67. In other words for every 100,000 Genco Shipping-and-Trading shares traded daily on the market, roughly 670 shares are currently held short.

However Genco Shipping-and-Trading's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Genco Shipping-and-Trading shares, or, against the total number of tradable Genco Shipping-and-Trading shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Genco Shipping-and-Trading's short interest could be expressed as 0.02% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Genco Shipping-and-Trading shares in existence, roughly 20 shares are currently held short) or 0.0483% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Genco Shipping-and-Trading shares, roughly 48 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Genco Shipping-and-Trading.

Find out more about how you can short Genco Shipping-and-Trading stock.

Have Genco Shipping-and-Trading's shares ever split?

Genco Shipping-and-Trading's shares were split on a 1:10 basis on 8 July 2016. So if you had owned 10 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Genco Shipping-and-Trading shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 900% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Genco Shipping-and-Trading shares which in turn could have impacted Genco Shipping-and-Trading's share price.

Genco Shipping-and-Trading share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Genco Shipping-and-Trading's shares have ranged in value from as little as $4.2282 up to $10.95. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Genco Shipping-and-Trading's is 0.7145. This would suggest that Genco Shipping-and-Trading's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Genco Shipping-and-Trading overview

Genco Shipping & Trading Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the ocean transportation of dry bulk cargoes worldwide. The company, through the ownership and operation of dry bulk carrier vessels, transports iron ore, coal, grains, steel products, and other dry-bulk cargoes. It charters its vessels primarily to trading houses, including commodities traders; producers; and government-owned entities. As of February 25, 2020, the company's fleet consisted of 17 Capesize, 1 Panamax, 6 Ultramax, 20 Supramax, and 10 Handysize vessels with an aggregate capacity of approximately 4,914,000 deadweight tons. Genco Shipping & Trading Limited was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Genco Shipping-and-Trading is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 5.929% of Genco Shipping-and-Trading shares are held by insiders and 79.199% by institutions.

• How many people work for Genco Shipping-and-Trading?

  Latest data suggests 1,255 work at Genco Shipping-and-Trading.

• When does the fiscal year end for Genco Shipping-and-Trading?

  Genco Shipping-and-Trading's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Genco Shipping-and-Trading based?

  Genco Shipping-and-Trading's address is: 299 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States, 10171

• What is Genco Shipping-and-Trading's ISIN number?

  Genco Shipping-and-Trading's international securities identification number is: MHY2685T1313

• What is Genco Shipping-and-Trading's CUSIP number?

  Genco Shipping-and-Trading's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: Y2685T107