With 0.82 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.74 million shares. The 52-week range on LRN shows that it touched its highest point at $69.70 and its lowest point at $35.61 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $71.75. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.25.
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Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of LRN was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 6.91%, but this was down by -0.62% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 3.48% while six-month performance rose 44.15%. The stock gained 40.69% in the past year, while it has gained 0.64% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LRN yields 3.96 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.71. For the next quarter, that number is 1.43. This implies an EPS growth rate of 42.74% for this year and 11.02% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 20.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 34.30%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 43.00 million LRN shares are outstanding with a float of 41.11 million shares on hand for trading. On Feb 15, 2024, short shares totaled 4.71 million, which was 10.85% higher than short shares on Jan 12, 2024. In addition to Mr. James J. Rhyu as the firm’s CEO & Director, Ms. Donna M. Blackman serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 106.55% of LRN’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have majority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for LRN since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With LRN analysts setting a high price target of $75.00 and a low target of $65.00, the average target price over the next 12 months is $71.75. Based on these targets, LRN could surge 25.52% to reach the target high and rise by 8.79% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 20.08% from current levels.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded LRN stock several times over the past three months with 0 Buys and 0 Sells. In these transactions, 0 shares were bought while 0 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has increased to 5 while that of sell transactions has risen to 17 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 186,114 while 73,613 shares were sold.
