With 0.86 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.14 million shares. During the session, the Education & Training Services company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $107.95 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $103.74. The 52-week range on LRN shows that it touched its highest point at $112.80 and its lowest point at $54.81 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $105.00. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.32.
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 LRN was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.82%, but this was down by -0.61% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 26.58% while six-month performance rose 54.59%. The stock gained 75.83% in the past year, while it has gained 2.32% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LRN yields 5.49 with Next year EPS estimates of 7.26. For the next quarter, that number is 1.92. This implies an EPS growth rate of 38.99% for this year and 11.33% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 43.59 million LRN shares are outstanding with a float of 41.21 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 5.99 million, which was 1373.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. James J. Rhyu as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Todd Goldthwaite serves as its Managing Director of Portfolio Companies.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.14084 of LRN’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 2021-06-30, LRN reported revenue of $551084000.0 and operating income of $47344000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $84256000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.94.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for LRN since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 LRN analysts setting a high price target of 109.0 and a low target of 88.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 98.2. Based on these targets, LRN could surge 2.5% to reach the target high and fall by -17.25% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -7.65% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.5775 being high and $4.49789 being low. For LRN, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.52774.
