In the last trading session, 9.66 million shares of the Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL) were traded, and its beta was 1.26. Most recently the company’s share price was $0.78, and it changed around -$0.02 or -1.83% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $145.18M. LESL currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $7.70, offering almost -887.18% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $0.76, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 2.56% since then. We note from Leslies Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 5.66 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 6.98 million.
Leslies Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 3.08. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 1 out of 11 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 0 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 8 recommended LESL as a Hold, whereas 1 deemed it a Buy, and 1 rated it as Underweight. Leslies Inc is expected to report earnings per share of -0.24 for the current quarter.
Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL) trade information
Instantly LESL has showed a red trend with a performance of -1.83% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 0.8934 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 12.69%. The company’s shares are currently down -64.85% year-to-date, but still down -4.94% over the last five days. On the other hand, Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL) is -47.04% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 23.77 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 2.49 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $3, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 74.0% from its current value. Analyst projections state that LESL is forecast to be at a low of $3 and a high of $3.
Leslies Inc (LESL) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 0.97%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 11 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 184.92M in revenue for the current quarter. 11 analysts expect Leslies Inc to make 572.14M in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 188.66M and 569.64M respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will drop, forecast at -1.99%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 0.44%.
LESL Dividends
Leslies Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Feb-05.
Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 3.40% of Leslies Inc shares, and 106.36% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 110.10%. Leslies Inc stock is held by 275.0 institutions, with ARIEL INVESTMENTS, LLC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 19.8023% of the shares, which is about 36.6 million shares worth $153.36 million.
BLACKROCK INC., with 15.4529% or 28.53 million shares worth $119.54 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
Ariel Fund and iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF were the top two Mutual Funds as of Dec 31, 2024 . The former held 32.0 shares worth $25.08 million, making up 17.28% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF held roughly 11.96 shares worth around $9.37 million, which represents about 6.46% of the total shares outstanding.
