With 0.89 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.87 million shares. During the session, the Other Industrial Metals & Mining company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $2.05 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $1.955. The 52-week range on LAR shows that it touched its highest point at $3.96 and its lowest point at $1.71 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $4.24. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.10.
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 -5.29%, but this was up by 8.24% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -15.81% while six-month performance fell -27.57%. The stock lost -24.81% in the past year, while it has lost -45.13% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for LAR yields -0.08 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.21. For the next quarter, that number is 0.00. This implies an EPS growth rate of -1.07% for this year and 327.39% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 161.97 million LAR shares are outstanding with a float of 118.21 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-05-30, short shares totaled 10.79 million, which was 667.0000399999999 higher than short shares on 1745971200. In addition to Mr. John Anthony Kanellitsas B.S., M.B.A. as the firm’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Samuel Pigott serves as its CEO, President & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.20688 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 2025-03-31, LAR reported revenue of $0.0 and operating income of -$10147000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $3229000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.04.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.
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 $0.13976 being high and -$0.1747 being low. For LAR, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.087352.