During the recent session, Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL)’s traded shares were 1.06 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.21. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $3.01, reflecting an intraday gain of 4.88% or $0.14. The 52-week high for the LESL share is $8.21, that puts it down -172.76 from that peak though still a striking 19.6% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $2.42. The company’s market capitalization is $556.59M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 3.84 million shares, and the average trade volume was 4.60 million shares over the past three months.
Leslies Inc (LESL) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.83. LESL has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 4 analysts who have looked at this stock. 4 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 0 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 0.11.
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Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL) trade information
Leslies Inc (LESL) registered a 4.88% upside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 4.88% in intraday trading to $3.01, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -0.33%, and it has moved by 1.35% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -47.56%. The short interest in Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL) is 22.52 million shares and it means that shorts have 4.92 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $4, which implies an increase of 24.75% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $3 and $36 respectively. As a result, LESL is trading at a discount of -1096.01% off the target high and 0.33% off the low.
Leslies Inc (LESL) estimates and forecasts
Statistics show that Leslies Inc has underperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Leslies Inc (LESL) shares have gone down -41.10% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate less than the industry average at -71.43% against -2.20. Yet analysts are ramping up their growth forecast for the fiscal year 2024. Revenue is predicted to shrink -20.13% this quarter and then jump 5.56% in the quarter after that. In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will decrease -7.85% compared to the previous financial year.
As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 405.18M as predicted by 11 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 8 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 178.64M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 432.37M and 173.96M respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to shrink by -6.29% and then jump by 2.69% in the coming quarter.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 9.95%. While earnings are projected to return -71.25% in 2024, the next five years will return 10.72% per annum.
LESL Dividends
Leslies Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in December. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL)’s Major holders
Leslies Inc insiders own 4.97% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 106.47%, with the float percentage being 112.04%. ARIEL INVESTMENTS, LLC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 300.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 36.6 million shares (or 19.8247% of all shares), a total value of $153.36 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 28.53 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 15.4529% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $119.54 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Leslies Inc (LESL) shares are Ariel Fund and iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF. Data provided on Sep 30, 2024 indicates that Ariel Fund owns about 25.39 shares. This amounts to just over 13.73 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $77.43 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 11.82, or about 6.39% of the stock, which is worth about $36.04 million.
