With 3.15 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 3.09 million shares. During the session, the Credit Services company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $2.7 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $2.55. The 52-week range on LU shows that it touched its highest point at $4.15 and its lowest point at $0.94 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $3.01. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.96.
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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 LU was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -0.77%, but this was down by -23.82% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -3.72% while six-month performance rose 27.21%. The stock gained 36.51% in the past year, while it has gained 88.53% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LU yields -0.76 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.23. For the next quarter, that number is -0.03. This implies an EPS growth rate of -382.21% for this year and 137.85% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 32.08% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -42.05%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 838.06 million LU shares are outstanding with a float of 837.75 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-15, short shares totaled 7.11 million, which was 82.0 higher than short shares on 1726185600. In addition to Mr. Yong Suk Cho as the firm’s Co-CEO & Chairman of the Board, Mr. Gregory Dean Gibb serves as its Co-CEO & Executive Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.106529996 of LU’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 LU since 10 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 7 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 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 LU analysts setting a high price target of 4.8 and a low target of 2.1, the average target price over the next 12 months is 3.21. Based on these targets, LU could surge 85.33% to reach the target high and fall by -18.92% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 23.94% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$3.68042 being high and -$4.93716 being low. For LU, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$4.30879. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.03. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.
