With 3.51 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 6.96 million shares. During the session, the Auto Manufacturers company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $23.875 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $23.305. The 52-week range on LI shows that it touched its highest point at $33.12 and its lowest point at $17.44 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $33.73. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.95.
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 LI was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.80%, but this was down by -8.53% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 4.52% while six-month performance fell -5.70%. The stock lost -4.38% in the past year, while it has lost -0.71% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LI yields 1.05 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.93. For the next quarter, that number is 0.14. This implies an EPS growth rate of -3.06% for this year and 44.59% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 825.95 million LI shares are outstanding with a float of 821.60 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 27.11 million, which was 252.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Donghui Ma as the firm’s President & Executive Director, Mr. Tie Li serves as its CFO & Executive Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.09392 of LI’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 2024-12-31, LI reported revenue of $44273672000.0 and operating income of $3703314000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $4101484000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for LI since 17 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 13 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. With LI analysts setting a high price target of 39.733196 and a low target of 27.04706, the average target price over the next 12 months is 33.62151. Based on these targets, LI could surge 66.81% to reach the target high and rise by 13.55% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 41.15% from current levels.
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 $8.63795 being high and $7.35825 being low. For LI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $7.83814. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.62 and the low estimate is $0.55. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.13.
