With 6.64 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 7.34 million shares. The 52-week range on LESL shows that it touched its highest point at $8.02 and its lowest point at $0.90 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $2.37. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.17.
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 LESL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.73%, but this was down by -57.13% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -59.99% while six-month performance fell -70.45%. The stock lost -87.18% in the past year, while it has lost -56.94% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LESL yields -0.15 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.13. For the next quarter, that number is -0.24. This implies an EPS growth rate of 405.08% for this year and 334.23% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 185.21 million LESL shares are outstanding with a float of 179.48 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for LESL since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.10064 being high and $0.060381 being low. For LESL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.080508. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.38 and the low estimate is $0.35. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.37.
