With 0.72 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.53 million shares. During the session, the Diagnostics & Research company that operates in wider Healthcare sector, reached to the highest price of $240.37 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $233.75. The 52-week range on LH shows that it touched its highest point at $239.50 and its lowest point at $191.97 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $263.69. With its current market cap of 19.99 billion, LH has annualized dividend of $2.88 while the current yield stands at 1.20%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.05.
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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 LH was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.72%, but this was up by 10.89% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 5.56% while six-month performance rose 15.96%. The stock gained 15.50% in the past year, while it has gained 5.17% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LH yields 5.16 with Next year EPS estimates of 15.98. For the next quarter, that number is 3.41. This implies an EPS growth rate of 7.17% for this year and 9.97% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.37% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -11.14%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 83.90 million LH shares are outstanding with a float of 83.35 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-15, short shares totaled 1.84 million, which was 219.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1726185600. In addition to Mr. Adam H. Schechter as the firm’s President, CEO & Chairman, Mr. Glenn A. Eisenberg serves as its CFO & Executive VP.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.95877 of LH’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 2024-09-30, LH reported revenue of $3282000000.0 and operating income of $272100000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $449000000.0 and diluted EPS was $2.0.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for LH since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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 LH analysts setting a high price target of 293.0 and a low target of 231.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 263.2. Based on these targets, LH could surge 22.57% to reach the target high and fall by -3.37% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.1% from current levels.
The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $3.78. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $4.06 and the low estimate is $3.59. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $3.86.
