Currently, there are 185.21M common shares owned by the public and among those 177.21M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -9.35% and -49.30% over the past three months. LESL shares are trading -34.75% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -80.98% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $1.56 and touched a high of $8.05 over the same period. LESL has an average intraday trading volume of 6.62 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 -24.96%, -32.10%, and -54.00% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Leslies Inc (NASDAQ: LESL) shares accounts for 105.70% of the company’s 185.21M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $269.50M and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.10. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.15. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 9.04% over the week and 7.76% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Leslies Inc (LESL) will achieve an EPS of -0.24 for the current quarter, 0.37 for the next quarter and 0.14 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is -0.26 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of -0.26. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was -0.17 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 405.08%, and 334.23% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the LESL, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. BofA Securities stated their Underperform rating for the stock in a research note on Feb-19-25, with the firm’s price target at $2.65-$1.40. Telsey Advisory Group coverage for the Leslies Inc (LESL) stock in a research note released on November 26, 2024 offered a Market Perform rating with a price target of $3.75. Telsey Advisory Group was of a view on July 18, 2024 that the stock is Market Perform, while Stifel gave the stock Sell rating on July 18, 2024, issuing a price target of $5.25- $2.50. Mizuho on their part issued Neutral rating on March 19, 2024.
