Reassessing The Changing Outlook For Lufax Holding Ltd ADR (LU)

Krane Funds Advisors LLC recently announced the acquisition of new stake in Lufax Holding Ltd ADR (NYSE:LU). The institutional investor has increased its shareholding in the Financial company by 14.05% to 7.76 million shares with purchase of 0.96 million shares. This fresh investment now brings its stake to 1.35% valued currently at $23.81 million. In addition, BAMCO, Inc. raised its holdings by 0.83 million to 4.6 million shares. And Yunqi Capital Ltd. has lifted its position by 3.11% or 0.12 million shares – to 3.84 million shares.

Currently, there are 573.00M common shares owned by the public and among those 572.15M shares have been available to trade.

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The top 3 mutual fund holders in Lufax Holding Ltd ADR are KraneShares CSI China Internet ET, Government Pension Fund – Global, and Baron Emerging Markets Fund. KraneShares CSI China Internet ET owns 7.12 million shares of the company’s stock, all valued at over $21.85 million. Government Pension Fund – Global bought 3.1 million shares to see its total holdings expand to 3.79 million shares valued at over $11.64 million and representing 0.66% of the shares outstanding. Baron Emerging Markets Fund now owns shares totaling to 0.61% of the shares outstanding.

However, the script later moved the day high at 2.4100, up 9.68%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 4.85% and -37.35% over the past three months. LU shares are trading -22.48% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -77.80% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $2.11 and touched a high of $13.28 over the same period. LU has an average intraday trading volume of 7.34 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -9.92%, -25.48%, and -52.97% respectively.

Institutional ownership of Lufax Holding Ltd ADR (NYSE: LU) shares accounts for 17.80% of the company’s 573.00M shares outstanding. Mutual fund holders own 8.85%, while other institutional holders and individual stakeholders account for 9.11% and — respectively.

It has a market capitalization of $1.36B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.70. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 10.19, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.23. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio at 0.46. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 5.29% over the week and 5.38% over the month.

Analysts forecast that Lufax Holding Ltd ADR (LU) will achieve an EPS of -$0.01 for the current quarter, $0.16 for the next quarter and $0.81 for 2024. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is -$0.03 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $0. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was -$0.2 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -78.21%, and 74.59% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of -8.55% over the next five years, compared to 9.51% over the past 5-year period.

Looking at the support for the LU, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. UBS stated their Sell rating for the stock in a research note on August 24, 2023, with the firm’s price target at $1.60-$1.

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