With 1.31 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.99 million shares. During the session, the Other Industrial Metals & Mining company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $1.995 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $1.8. The 52-week range on LAR shows that it touched its highest point at $5.68 and its lowest point at $1.83 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $4.69. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.24.
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 LAR was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -12.62%, but this was down by -16.89% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -34.62% while six-month performance fell -39.29%. The stock lost -64.45% in the past year, while it has lost -28.63% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LAR yields -0.09 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.31. For the next quarter, that number is 0.00. This implies an EPS growth rate of 131.10% for this year and 1004.16% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 161.93 million LAR shares are outstanding with a float of 133.08 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 9.73 million, which was 609.0000299999999 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. John Anthony Kanellitsas B.S., M.B.A. as the firm’s Executive Chairman, Ms. Kelly O’Brien serves as its VP of Investor Relations & ESG.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.23444 of LAR’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 2024-12-31, LAR reported revenue of $0.0 and operating income of -$8658000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $5052000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With LAR analysts setting a high price target of 10.0 and a low target of 2.8, the average target price over the next 12 months is 5.51364. Based on these targets, LAR could surge 434.76% to reach the target high and rise by 49.73% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 194.85% 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. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.04 and the low estimate is -$0.01. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.02.
