In today’s recent session, 1.14 million shares of the Centrus Energy Corp (AMEX:LEU) have been traded, and its beta is 1.23. Most recently the company’s share price was $124.55, and it changed around $11.26 or 9.94% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $2.12B. LEU at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $122.94, offering almost 1.29% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $33.51, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 73.1% since then. We note from Centrus Energy Corp’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 1.16 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 729.14K.
Centrus Energy Corp stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.50. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 8 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 1 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 2 recommended LEU as a Hold, whereas 5 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Centrus Energy Corp is expected to report earnings per share of 0.58 for the current quarter.
Centrus Energy Corp (AMEX:LEU) trade information
Instantly LEU has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 9.94% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 125.48 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 0.74%. The company’s shares are currently up 86.98% year-to-date, but still up 30.83% over the last five days. On the other hand, Centrus Energy Corp (AMEX:LEU) is 79.05% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 3.2 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 5.05 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $137, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 9.09% from its current value. Analyst projections state that LEU is forecast to be at a low of $129 and a high of $145.
Centrus Energy Corp (LEU) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be -2.38%, down from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 7 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 126.34M in revenue for the current quarter. 7 analysts expect Centrus Energy Corp to make 84.38M in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 189M and 57.7M respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will drop, forecast at -33.15%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 46.23%.
Centrus Energy Corp earnings are expected to increase by -13.45% in 2025, but the outlook is negative -1.14% per year for the next five years.
LEU Dividends
Centrus Energy Corp’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-May-06. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 5.94 per year.
Centrus Energy Corp (AMEX:LEU)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 4.88% of Centrus Energy Corp shares, and 77.41% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 81.39%. Centrus Energy Corp stock is held by 327.0 institutions, with BLACKROCK INC. being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 6.4437% of the shares, which is about 1.04 million shares worth $44.58 million.
MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS LTD., with 6.2872% or 1.02 million shares worth $43.5 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
GLOBAL X FUNDS-Global X Uranium ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Apr 30, 2025 . The former held 838.81 shares worth $105.52 million, making up 5.14% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held roughly 442.8 shares worth around $55.7 million, which represents about 2.71% of the total shares outstanding.
