With 1.65 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.6 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Life company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $35.84 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $34.315. The 52-week range on LNC shows that it touched its highest point at $39.85 and its lowest point at $25.80 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $39.33. With its current market cap of 5.87 billion, LNC has annualized dividend of $1.80 while the current yield stands at 5.22%. LNC paid its most recent dividend on 1736467200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1744243200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.56.
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 LNC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.77%, but this was down by -10.21% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 2.16% while six-month performance rose 19.36%. The stock gained 26.74% in the past year, while it has gained 8.67% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LNC yields 18.38 with Next year EPS estimates of 8.45. For the next quarter, that number is 1.64. This implies an EPS growth rate of 8.75% for this year and 9.96% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.86% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 33.25%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 170.38 million LNC shares are outstanding with a float of 168.32 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 3.89 million, which was 228.00000000000003 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Ms. Ellen R. Gail Cooper C.F.A., F.S.A. as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. Christopher Michael Neczypor serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.7563 of LNC’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 LNC since 11 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 7 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 LNC analysts setting a high price target of 50.0 and a low target of 32.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 39.18182. Based on these targets, LNC could surge 45.1% to reach the target high and fall by -7.14% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 13.7% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $6.79523 being high and $6.74648 being low. For LNC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.77573. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.24 and the low estimate is $1.97. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.1.
