Will the Gvc Holdings share price run continue?

In this article we will quickly re-cap the broker forecasts for Gvc Holdings (LON:GVC).

The Gvc Holdings share price has risen by 11.4% over the past month and it’s currently trading at 865.2. For investors considering whether to buy, hold or sell the stock, the question now is whether this price run will continue.

According to the company’s analysts, there are certainly reasons to think it will continue to perform well in the year ahead. In terms of trading recommendations, Gvc Holdings currently has:

• 6 Buy recommendations

• 2 Hold recommendations

• 0 Sell recommendations

This suggests that analysts are generally positive about the outlook.

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Questioning broker positivity

At its current price of 865.2, shares in Gvc Holdings are trading at a discount of -9.78% to its 52 week high price. The 1-year performance of the shares has been 43.9%.

While analyst forecasts can be a useful guide to what City 'experts' think about a stock's near term future, they can be unreliable. To get a better idea about the strengths and weaknesses of Gvc Holdings it's worth doing some investigation yourself.

There are all sorts of factors that could affect Gvc Holdings's share price this year – we simplify them into easy to understand scores with our Stockopedia StockReport. Click here to take a look at the StockReport for Gvc Holdings – you might discover some surprising things you didn’t know.