With 1.05 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.46 million shares. During the session, the Information Technology Services company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $143.38 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $141.565. The 52-week range on LDOS shows that it touched its highest point at $202.90 and its lowest point at $108.97 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $183.85. With its current market cap of 18.85 billion, LDOS has annualized dividend of $1.54 while the current yield stands at 1.09%. LDOS paid its most recent dividend on 1734307200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1734307200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.71.
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 LDOS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.73%, but this was down by -3.98% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -22.78% while six-month performance fell -0.96%. The stock gained 27.37% in the past year, while it has lost -1.92% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LDOS yields 8.78 with Next year EPS estimates of 10.58. For the next quarter, that number is 2.27. This implies an EPS growth rate of 38.61% for this year and 4.61% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 16.58% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -17.61%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 133.34 million LDOS shares are outstanding with a float of 131.75 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 3.06 million, which was 229.0 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Thomas A. Bell as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Christopher R. Cage serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.78799003 of LDOS’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 2024-09-27, LDOS reported revenue of $4190000000.0 and operating income of $515000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $596000000.0 and diluted EPS was $2.68.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for LDOS since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 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 LDOS analysts setting a high price target of 220.0 and a low target of 148.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 184.38142. Based on these targets, LDOS could surge 55.71% to reach the target high and rise by 4.75% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 30.5% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $10.38084 being high and $9.94704 being low. For LDOS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $10.11854. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.71 and the low estimate is $2.34. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.5.
