The trading price of Lam Research Corp (NASDAQ:LRCX) closed lower on Tuesday, December 10, and closing at $75.13, -3.00% lower than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it fluctuated between $74.42 and $78.25. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period was 24.31, while its 5Y monthly beta was 1.486. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $113.00 and a 52-week low of $68.87. Over the past month, the stock has lost -3.93% in value.
Lam Research Corp, whose market valuation is $96.67 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report in January. The dividend yield on the company stock is 11.05%, while its Forward Dividend ratio is 8.30. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable. Analysts have predicted the quarterly earnings per share to grow by 0.88 per share this quarter, however they have predicted annual earnings per share of 3.55 for current year and 4.19 for next year.
Analysts have forecast the company to bring in revenue of 4.33B for the current quarter, with the likely lows of 4.3B and highs of 4.48B. From the analysts’ viewpoint, the consensus estimate for the company’s annual revenue is 17.32B.
On the technical side, indicators suggest LRCX has a 50% Sell on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 100% Sell, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Sell.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned LRCX a recommendation rating is 15. Out of them, 5 rate it a Hold, while 10 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Lam Research Corp (LRCX) as Underweight, while 0 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Buy, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
If we dig deeper into the stock’s outlook, we see that the stock’s PEG is 1.41, which symbolizes a positive outlook. A quick review shows that LRCX’s price is currently 1.37% off the SMA20 and -1.43% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 49.48, and weekly volatility stands at 3.68%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 3.13%. Lam Research Corp (NASDAQ:LRCX)’s beta value is currently sitting at 1.46, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 2.74. With analysts defining $75-$115 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $100 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about 0.17% off the estimated low and -53.07% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if LRCX’s share price rises to $100, which is the median consensus price. At that level, LRCX’s share price would be -33.1% below current price.
To see how Lam Research Corp stock has been performing in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: LRCX stock’s performance was -3.00% in the latest trading, and 6.84% in the past year. Lam Research Corp has a P/E ratio of 24.31.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Lam Research Corp (NASDAQ:LRCX) indicates that the 3-month average is 12.51 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 11.4.
Currently, records show that 1.29 billion of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 0.42% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 78.52%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-11-29, stood at 33.7 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 3.14 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 262.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in November were up slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 32.55 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen -4.08% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even lower.
