With 3.29 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.88 million shares. During the session, the Oil & Gas Midstream company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $230.75 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $221.88. The 52-week range on LNG shows that it touched its highest point at $257.65 and its lowest point at $152.31 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $244.95. With its current market cap of 50.36 billion, LNG has annualized dividend of $1.80 while the current yield stands at 0.80%. LNG paid its most recent dividend on 1731024000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731024000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.99.
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 LNG was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -11.20%, but this was up by 7.20% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 22.75% while six-month performance rose 27.28%. The stock gained 35.76% in the past year, while it has gained 4.46% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LNG yields 15.68 with Next year EPS estimates of 11.65. For the next quarter, that number is 2.72. This implies an EPS growth rate of -71.08% for this year and -1.07% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 225.40 million LNG shares are outstanding with a float of 221.98 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 3.75 million, which was 167.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Jack A. Fusco as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Zach Davis serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.90771 of LNG’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, LNG reported revenue of $3763000000.0 and operating income of $1647000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1991000000.0 and diluted EPS was $3.93.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for LNG since 18 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 14 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 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 LNG analysts setting a high price target of 303.0 and a low target of 184.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 241.26086. Based on these targets, LNG could surge 34.99% to reach the target high and fall by -18.03% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 7.49% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $9.41672 being high and $8.90518 being low. For LNG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $9.12853. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $3.23 and the low estimate is $2.85. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $3.04.
