Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL)’s traded shares stood at 2.52 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.24. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $0.85, to imply an increase of 1.13% or $0.01 in intraday trading. The LESL share’s 52-week high remains $7.70, putting it -805.88% down since that peak but still an impressive 10.59% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $0.76. The company has a valuation of $157.78M, with an average of 5.35 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 7.19 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Hold for Leslies Inc (LESL), translating to a mean rating of 3.08. Of 4 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give LESL a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 4 advise Hold as 0 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at -0.24.
Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL) trade information
After registering a 1.13% upside in the last session, Leslies Inc (LESL) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -0.77%, and -41.46% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -61.80%. Short interest in Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL) saw shorts transact 23.77 million shares and set a 2.49 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $3 and $3 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, LESL has been trading -252.94% off suggested target high and -252.94% from its likely low.
Leslies Inc (LESL) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 0.97% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 11 analysts is 184.92M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 11 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 572.14M.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 188.66M and 569.64M respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to fall -1.99% before jumping 0.44% in the following quarter.
LESL Dividends
Leslies Inc has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-05. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.
Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL)’s Major holders
Leslies Inc insiders hold 3.38% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 106.36% of the shares at 110.08% float percentage. In total, 106.36% institutions holds shares in the company, led by ARIEL INVESTMENTS, LLC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 36.6 million shares (or 19.8023% of shares), all amounting to roughly $153.36 million.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 28.53 million shares, or about 15.4529% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $119.54 million.
We also have Ariel Fund and iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Leslies Inc (LESL) shares. Going by data provided on Dec 31, 2024, Ariel Fund holds roughly 32.0 shares. This is just over 17.28% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $27.26 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 11.96, or 6.46% of the shares, all valued at about 10.19 million.
