With 1.43 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.9 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $17.85 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $17.11. 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 $18.65. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.03.
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 3.11%, but this was up by 8.50% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 48.66% while six-month performance rose 106.10%. The stock gained 102.71% in the past year, while it has gained 6.42% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LC yields 0.46 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.86. For the next quarter, that number is 0.09. This implies an EPS growth rate of 28.03% for this year and 85.75% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 112.40 million LC shares are outstanding with a float of 108.25 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 4.36 million, which was 388.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. 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 0.76567 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 28.0 and a low target of 11.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 18.65. Based on these targets, LC could surge 62.51% to reach the target high and fall by -36.16% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 8.24% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.49034 being high and $0.44131 being low. For LC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.46092. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.21 and the low estimate is $0.1. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.14.
