Cheniere Energy Inc (LNG) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $233.36, with 4.85 million shares of worth about $1.13 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 29.00% during that period and on January 22, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -6.52%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 225.40M shares, out of which, 221.98M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -4.00% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 12.93%. Year-to-date (YTD), LNG shares are showing a performance of 8.61% which increased to 44.90% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $152.31 but also hit the highest price of $257.65 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Cheniere Energy Inc shares is 1.79 million. The stock is currently trading 3.12% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 6.02% for SMA50 and it goes to 26.31% higher than SMA200.
Cheniere Energy Inc (NYSE: LNG) currently have 225.40M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 89.10% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $52.36B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.00. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 14.89, while it has posted earnings per share of $15.68 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 0.98 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 5.22. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for LNG, volatility over the week remained 3.28% while standing at 2.44% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Cheniere Energy Inc (LNG) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 3.2 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 3.04 and it is 11.63 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 2.84 which is 3.64 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 2.04 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -71.08% while it is estimated to decrease by -1.62% in next year.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Scotiabank on January 10, 2025 offering a Sector outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $242 to it. Coverage by TD Cowen stated Cheniere Energy Inc (LNG) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on November 26, 2024, suggesting a price target of $242 for the stock. On November 05, 2024, TD Cowen Reiterated their recommendations, while on October 17, 2024, BofA Securities Resumed their ratings for the stock with a price target of $215. Stock get an Outperform rating from Bernstein on June 24, 2024.
