In the last trading session, 1.06 million Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.74. With the company’s per share price at $0.97 changed hands at $0.02 or 2.36% during last session, the market valuation stood at $90.25M. LPSN’s last price was a discount, traded about -310.31% off its 52-week high of $3.98. The share price had its 52-week low at $0.45, which suggests the last value was 53.61% up since then. When we look at Liveperson Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.69 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.92 million.
Analysts gave the Liveperson Inc (LPSN) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 3.33. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 1 out of 16 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 6 recommended LPSN as a Hold, 9 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN) trade information
Instantly LPSN was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 18.59%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -74.39%, with the 5-day performance at 18.59% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN) is -19.79% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 7.21 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.66 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 7, meaning bulls need an upside of 86.14% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, LPSN’s forecast low is 1 with 20 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -1961.86% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -3.09% for it to hit the projected low.
Liveperson Inc (LPSN) estimates and forecasts
Data shows that the Liveperson Inc share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 41.39% over the past 6 months, a -5.88% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 10.30%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -24.76%. The 2024 estimates are for Liveperson Inc earnings to decrease by -229.77%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 15.00% per year.
LPSN Dividends
Liveperson Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in January.
Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 8.70% of Liveperson Inc shares while 37.70% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 41.29%. There are 37.70% institutions holding the Liveperson Inc stock share, with VECTOR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 12.3743% of the shares, roughly 10.9 million LPSN shares worth $6.33 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 8.1918% or 7.22 million shares worth $4.19 million as of 2024-06-30.
