With 0.8 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.14 million shares. During the session, the Capital Markets company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $39.26 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $38.32. The 52-week range on LAZ shows that it touched its highest point at $42.24 and its lowest point at $25.82 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $48.43. With its current market cap of 3.41 billion, LAZ has annualized dividend of $2.00 while the current yield stands at 5.13%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.46.
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 LAZ was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.85%, but this was down by -5.78% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -1.27% while six-month performance rose 41.52%. The stock gained 20.34% in the past year, while it has gained 12.04% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LAZ yields -0.34 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.18. For the next quarter, that number is 0.46. This implies an EPS growth rate of 280.92% for this year and 42.36% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 87.43 million LAZ shares are outstanding with a float of 80.61 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-04-15, short shares totaled 1.86 million, which was 213.00000999999997 higher than short shares on 1710460800. In addition to Mr. Kenneth Marc Jacobs as the firm’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Peter R. Orszag serves as its CEO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.55516 of LAZ’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-03-31, LAZ reported revenue of $818837000.0 and operating income of $84474000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $102410000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.65.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for LAZ 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.
