Is Liveperson Inc’s (NASDAQ:LPSN) Stock Expensive Or Cheap At $1.38?

In recent trading session, Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN) saw 0.98 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.56. Company’s recent per share price level of $1.38 trading at $0.1 or 7.78% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $122.72M. That most recent trading price of LPSN’s stock is at a discount of -333.33% from its 52-week high price of $5.98 and is indicating a premium of 67.39% from its 52-week low price of $0.45. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 5.86 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 3.62 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Liveperson Inc (LPSN), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 3.00. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 16 analysts covering the stock, 1 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 6 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 9 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.

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Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN) trade information

Upright in the green today for gaining 7.78%, in the last five days LPSN remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 07/24/24 when the stock touched $1.38 price level, adding 10.39% to its value on the day. Liveperson Inc’s shares saw a change of -63.46% in year-to-date performance and have moved 39.90% in past 5-day. Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN) showed a performance of 132.15% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 5.7 million shares which calculate 1.75 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 9.5 to the stock, which implies a rise of 85.47% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 1 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 20. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 27.54% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 27.54% for stock’s current value.

Liveperson Inc (LPSN) estimates and forecasts

Statistics highlight that Liveperson Inc is scoring comparatively lower than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company lost -55.32% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of -17.65% while that of industry is 23.00. Apart from that, the company came lowering its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2024.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -24.76% during past 5 years. In 2024, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -117.54% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 15.00%.

Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 8.37% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 67.41 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 73.56%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 67.41% institutions for Liveperson Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VECTOR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. is the top institutional holder at LPSN for having 10.9 million shares of worth $10.87 million. And as of 2024-03-31, it was holding 12.3743 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 8.66 million shares on 2024-03-31. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 11.0142 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $8.63 million.