In the last trading session, 4.21 million Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.60. With the company’s per share price at $1.42 changed hands at $0.07 or 5.19% during last session, the market valuation stood at $129.01M. LPSN’s last price was a discount, traded about -180.28% 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 68.31% up since then. When we look at Liveperson Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 13.63 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 3.53 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 -2.74%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -6.58%, with the 5-day performance at -2.74% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN) is 58.93% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 7.22 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 4.86 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 1, meaning bulls need a downside of -42.0% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, LPSN’s forecast low is 1 with 1 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a 29.58% surge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 29.58% 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 63.97% over the past 6 months, a -5.88% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 20.00%.
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 2025 estimates are for Liveperson Inc earnings to decrease by -229.77%.
LPSN Dividends
Liveperson Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in February.
Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 9.23% of Liveperson Inc shares while 37.57% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 41.39%. There are 37.57% 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.
