In the last trading session, 4.59 million Luminar Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:LAZR) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.91. With the company’s per share price at $6.42 changed hands at $1.37 or 27.13% during last session, the market valuation stood at $213.77M. LAZR’s last price was a discount, traded about -442.06% off its 52-week high of $34.80. The share price had its 52-week low at $4.47, which suggests the last value was 30.37% up since then. When we look at Luminar Technologies Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.48 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.29 million.
Analysts gave the Luminar Technologies Inc (LAZR) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 3.17. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 1 out of 6 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 2 recommended LAZR as a Hold, 3 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Luminar Technologies Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be -2.0.
Luminar Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:LAZR) trade information
Instantly LAZR was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 37.77%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 19.33%, with the 5-day performance at 37.77% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Luminar Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:LAZR) is -2.73% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 7.64 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 4.67 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 9, meaning bulls need an upside of 28.67% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, LAZR’s forecast low is 3 with 15 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -133.64% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 53.27% for it to hit the projected low.
Luminar Technologies Inc (LAZR) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 0.79% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 6 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 17.5M. 3 analysts are of the opinion that Luminar Technologies Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 21.23M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 22.11M and 20.97M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -20.88%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 1.27%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -406.53%. The 2025 estimates are for Luminar Technologies Inc earnings to increase by 23.24%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 29.92% per year.
LAZR Dividends
Luminar Technologies Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Mar-19.
Luminar Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:LAZR)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 2.49% of Luminar Technologies Inc shares while 45.61% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 46.77%. There are 45.61% institutions holding the Luminar Technologies Inc stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 7.6874% of the shares, roughly 32.67 million LAZR shares worth $48.67 million.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 5.9268% or 25.18 million shares worth $37.53 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF . With 749.09 shares estimated at $4.81 million under it, the former controlled 0.19% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Russell 2000 ETF held about 0.15% of the shares, roughly 594.18 shares worth around $3.81 million.
