During the last session, Luminar Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:LAZR)’s traded shares were 1.1 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.63. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $6.26, reflecting an intraday loss of -3.54% or -$0.23. The 52-week high for the LAZR share is $45.67, that puts it down -629.55 from that peak though still a striking 21.25% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $4.93. The company’s market capitalization is $208.43M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 3.98 million shares, and the average trade volume was 3.05 million shares over the past three months.
Luminar Technologies Inc (LAZR) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 3.17. LAZR has a Sell rating from 1 analyst(s) out of 6 analysts who have looked at this stock. 2 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 3 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Luminar Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:LAZR) trade information
Luminar Technologies Inc (LAZR) registered a -3.54% downside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -3.54% in intraday trading to $6.26, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 5.21%, and it has moved by 10.41% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -81.12%. The short interest in Luminar Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:LAZR) is 6.02 million shares and it means that shorts have 2.28 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $3, which implies a decrease of -108.67% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $1 and $15 respectively. As a result, LAZR is trading at a discount of -139.62% off the target high and 84.03% off the low.
Luminar Technologies Inc (LAZR) estimates and forecasts
Statistics show that Luminar Technologies Inc has outperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Luminar Technologies Inc (LAZR) shares have gone down -76.69% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate more than the industry average at 25.46% against 9.00.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 34.30%. While earnings are projected to return -17.40% in 2025, the next five years will return 20.00% per annum.
LAZR Dividends
Luminar Technologies 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.
Luminar Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:LAZR)’s Major holders
Luminar Technologies Inc insiders own 2.49% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 35.34%, with the float percentage being 36.24%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 308.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 32.67 million shares (or 7.6874% of all shares), a total value of $48.67 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 25.18 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 5.9268% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $37.53 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Luminar Technologies Inc (LAZR) shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF . Data provided on Sep 30, 2024 indicates that Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 781.23 shares. This amounts to just over 0.19 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $4.89 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 570.16, or about 0.14% of the stock, which is worth about $3.57 million.
