With 4.02 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 4.75 million shares. During the session, the Resorts & Casinos company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $44.68 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $43.785. The 52-week range on LVS shows that it touched its highest point at $56.60 and its lowest point at $36.62 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $59.36. With its current market cap of 31.89 billion, LVS has annualized dividend of $0.80 while the current yield stands at 1.82%. LVS paid its most recent dividend on 1730764800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1730764800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.10.
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 LVS was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -10.52%, but this was down by -18.36% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -13.68% while six-month performance rose 3.87%. The stock lost -10.32% in the past year, while it has lost -14.37% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LVS yields 2.01 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.77. For the next quarter, that number is 0.84. This implies an EPS growth rate of 23.97% for this year and 18.25% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 17.59% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -12.26%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 725.00 million LVS shares are outstanding with a float of 382.44 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 22.96 million, which was 317.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Robert Glen Goldstein as the firm’s Chairman, CEO & Treasurer, Mr. Patrick Dumont serves as its President, COO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.47318 of LVS’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, LVS reported revenue of $2682000000.0 and operating income of $519000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $936000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.38.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for LVS since 15 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 13 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 LVS analysts setting a high price target of 69.0 and a low target of 51.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 59.59579. Based on these targets, LVS could surge 56.89% to reach the target high and rise by 15.96% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 35.51% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.49188 being high and $2.28339 being low. For LVS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.34296. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.85 and the low estimate is $0.59. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.67.
