During the last session, Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL)’s traded shares were 4.59 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.11. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $2.27, reflecting an intraday gain of 1.79% or $0.04. The 52-week high for the LESL share is $8.21, that puts it down -261.67 from that peak though still a striking 11.01% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $2.02. The company’s market capitalization is $419.88M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 6.15 million shares, and the average trade volume was 5.61 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.
Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL) trade information
Leslies Inc (LESL) registered a 1.79% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 1.79% in intraday trading to $2.27, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 4.13%, and it has moved by -5.42% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -67.39%. 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 $3.25, which implies an increase of 30.15% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $3 and $4 respectively. As a result, LESL is trading at a discount of -76.21% off the target high and -32.16% off the low.
Leslies Inc (LESL) estimates and forecasts
Statistics show that Leslies Inc has outperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Leslies Inc (LESL) shares have gone down -37.64% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate more than the industry average at 1,300.00% against -2.50.
While earnings are projected to return 1045.17% in 2025, the next five years will return 9.70% per annum.
LESL Dividends
Leslies Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in February. 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.
