Lyft Inc (NASDAQ:LYFT) price on Wednesday, January 15, rose 3.32% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $13.40.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $12.97, moving within a range at $13.28 and $13.62. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 2.041. Turning to its 52-week performance, $20.82 and $8.93 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, LYFT moved -9.76% over the past month.
Lyft Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $5.56 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in February.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that LYFT is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
24 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 13 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 11 recommend LYFT as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Hold which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
LYFT’s current price about -1.49% and -12.64% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 42.47, while 7-day volatility ratio is 4.10% and 4.05% in the 30-day chart. Further, Lyft Inc (LYFT) has a beta value of 2.15, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.65. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $16.5, forecast between a low of $10 and high of $26. Looking at the price targets, the low is 25.37% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -94.03%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -23.13% jump to $16.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Lyft Inc (NASDAQ:LYFT), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 15.87 over the past 10 days and 14.97 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 406.28 million shares.
The 9.46% of Lyft Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 80.31% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 48.76 million on 2024-12-31, giving us a short ratio of 3.64. The data shows that as of 2024-12-31 short interest in Lyft Inc (LYFT) stood at 1409.9999999999998 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 39.46 million registered in 2024-11-29. Current price change has pushed the stock 3.88% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the LYFT stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
