Taking on analysts’ expectations and winning: Lemonade Inc (LMND)

With 1.74 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.29 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Property & Casualty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $36.18 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $33.58. The 52-week range on LMND shows that it touched its highest point at $53.85 and its lowest point at $14.03 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $28.12. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.07.

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 LMND was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -0.96%, but this was down by -6.01% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -15.57% while six-month performance rose 86.13%. The stock gained 107.90% in the past year, while it has lost -7.44% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LMND yields -2.85 with Next year EPS estimates of -1.90. For the next quarter, that number is -0.91. This implies an EPS growth rate of 2.31% for this year and 31.59% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 30.12% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -8.22%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 72.72 million LMND shares are outstanding with a float of 54.36 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 16.24 million, which was 2229.9999 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. Daniel Asher Schreiber as the firm’s CO-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Mr. Shai Wininger Gavish serves as its Co-Founder, President & Director.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.46264 of LMND’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 LMND since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 LMND analysts setting a high price target of 60.0 and a low target of 15.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 29.16667. Based on these targets, LMND could surge 76.73% to reach the target high and fall by -55.82% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -14.09% 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 -$2.97256 being high and -$3.07264 being low. For LMND, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$3.03261. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is -$0.65 and the low estimate is -$0.84. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.72.