In the last trading session, 4.8 million Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.25. With the company’s per share price at $0.85 changed hands at $0.03 or 3.48% during last session, the market valuation stood at $158.04M. LESL’s last price was a discount, traded about -805.88% off its 52-week high of $7.70. The share price had its 52-week low at $0.76, which suggests the last value was 10.59% up since then. When we look at Leslies Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 6.2 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 7.26 million.
Analysts gave the Leslies Inc (LESL) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 3.08. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 4 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 4 recommended LESL as a Hold, 0 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Leslies Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be -0.24.
Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL) trade information
Instantly LESL was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -11.15%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -61.74%, with the 5-day performance at -11.15% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL) is -46.34% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 23.77 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.49 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 3, meaning bulls need an upside of 71.67% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, LESL’s forecast low is 3 with 3 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -252.94% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -252.94% for it to hit the projected low.
Leslies Inc (LESL) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 0.97% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 11 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 184.92M. 11 analysts are of the opinion that Leslies Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 572.14M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 188.66M and 569.64M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -1.99%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 0.44%.
The 2025 estimates are for Leslies Inc earnings to increase by 405.65%.
LESL Dividends
Leslies Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-05.
Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 3.36% of Leslies Inc shares while 106.35% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 110.05%. There are 106.35% institutions holding the Leslies Inc stock share, with ARIEL INVESTMENTS, LLC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 19.8023% of the shares, roughly 36.6 million LESL shares worth $153.36 million.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 15.4529% or 28.53 million shares worth $119.54 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were Ariel Fund and iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF . With 32.0 shares estimated at $27.3 million under it, the former controlled 17.28% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF held about 6.46% of the shares, roughly 11.96 shares worth around $10.2 million.
