In today’s recent session, 33.19 million shares of the Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN) have been traded, and its beta is 1.64. Most recently the company’s share price was $1.68, and it changed around $0.33 or 24.40% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $152.58M. LPSN at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $3.98, offering almost -136.9% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $0.45, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 73.21% since then. We note from Liveperson Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 4.01 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.08 million.
Liveperson Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 3.33. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 7 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 0 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 5 recommended LPSN as a Hold, whereas 1 deemed it a Buy, and 1 rated it as Underweight.
Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN) trade information
Instantly LPSN has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 24.40% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 2.0800 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 19.23%. The company’s shares are currently down -55.69% year-to-date, but still up 97.51% over the last five days. On the other hand, Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN) is 73.04% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 7.22 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 4.86 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $1, which translates to bulls needing to decrease their stock price by -68.0% from its current value. Analyst projections state that LPSN is forecast to be at a low of $1 and a high of $1.
Liveperson Inc (LPSN) estimates and forecasts
Liveperson Inc share prices are performing particularly well not compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have risen 191.82 percent over the past six months and at a -5.88% annual growth rate that is well below the industry average of 20.00%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -24.76%. Liveperson Inc earnings are expected to increase by -229.77% in 2024, but the outlook is positive 15.00% per year for the next five years.
LPSN Dividends
Liveperson Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in January.
Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 9.23% of Liveperson Inc shares, and 37.65% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 41.47%. Liveperson Inc stock is held by 94.0 institutions, with VECTOR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 12.3743% of the shares, which is about 10.9 million shares worth $6.33 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC, with 8.1918% or 7.22 million shares worth $4.19 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
