In the last trading session, 1.34 million Centrus Energy Corp (AMEX:LEU) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.43. With the company’s per share price at $183.18 changed hands at $14.53 or 8.62% during last session, the market valuation stood at $3.12B. LEU’s last price was a discount, traded about -15.36% off its 52-week high of $211.31. The share price had its 52-week low at $33.51, which suggests the last value was 81.71% up since then. When we look at Centrus Energy Corp’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.76 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.10 million.
Analysts gave the Centrus Energy Corp (LEU) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.64. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 3 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended LEU as a Hold, 3 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Centrus Energy Corp (AMEX:LEU) trade information
Instantly LEU was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -4.72%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 316.32%, with the 5-day performance at -4.72% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Centrus Energy Corp (AMEX:LEU) is 48.32% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 3.28 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.89 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 137, meaning bulls need a downside of -33.71% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, LEU’s forecast low is 129 with 145 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a 20.84% surge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 29.58% for it to hit the projected low.
The 2025 estimates are for Centrus Energy Corp earnings to decrease by -17.60%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at -9.44% per year.
LEU Dividends
Centrus Energy Corp is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-May-07. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 5.94 per year.
Centrus Energy Corp (AMEX:LEU)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 4.83% of Centrus Energy Corp shares while 77.10% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 81.01%. There are 77.10% institutions holding the Centrus Energy Corp stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 6.4437% of the shares, roughly 1.04 million LEU shares worth $44.58 million.
MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS LTD. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 6.2872% or 1.02 million shares worth $43.5 million as of 2024-06-30.
