With 2.53 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.77 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $11.09 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $10.82. The 52-week range on LC shows that it touched its highest point at $18.75 and its lowest point at $7.48 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $16.17. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.33.
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 LC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 11.55%, but this was up by 5.76% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -34.58% while six-month performance fell -20.33%. The stock gained 37.28% in the past year, while it has lost -32.00% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LC yields 0.45 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.19. For the next quarter, that number is 0.16. This implies an EPS growth rate of 50.77% for this year and 75.15% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 113.38 million LC shares are outstanding with a float of 110.28 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 3.89 million, which was 340.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. Scott C. Sanborn as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Andrew LaBenne serves as its Chief Financial Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.77883005 of LC’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority 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 LC since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 LC analysts setting a high price target of 20.0 and a low target of 14.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 17.16667. Based on these targets, LC could surge 81.65% to reach the target high and rise by 27.16% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 55.92% 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 $0.49043 being high and $0.44138 being low. For LC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.461.
