Lloyds Banking Group plc ADR (NYSE:LYG) concluded the trading at $3.06 on Wednesday, January 29 with a fall of -0.33% from its closing price on previous day.
Taking a look at stock we notice that its last check on previous day was $3.07 and 5Y monthly beta was reading 1.241 with its price kept floating in the range of $3.03 and $3.11 on the day. Considering stock’s 52-week price range provides that LYG hit a high price of $3.24 and saw its price falling to a low level of $2.00 during that period. Over a period of past 1-month, stock came adding 11.27% in its value.
With its current market valuation of $46.33 billion, Lloyds Banking Group plc ADR is set to declare its quarterly results in February. LYG Stock’s Forward Dividend of 0.15 and its yield of 4.86% are making investors’ thoughts stronger that it could climb further before the company announces its earnings for the current quarter.
In contrast, when we review LYG stock’s current outlook then short term indicators are assigning it an average of Hold, while medium term indicators are categorizing the stock at an average of 50% Sell. Long term indicators are suggesting an average of 100% Buy for it.
According to ratings assigned by 3 analysts at the scale of 1 to 5 with 1.00 representing a strong buy and 5.00 suggesting a strong sell; 0 of them are recommending Lloyds Banking Group plc ADR (LYG) as a Hold, while 3 are in view that stock is a Buy. Recommendation by 0 analysts for the stock is an Underweight while number of those analysts who rated the stock as an Overweight is 0, whereas 0 of them are considering the stock as a Sell. When taken as whole, stock gets a rating of Overweight and that encourages the investors to exploit the opportunity and build their stake up in the company.
Digging deeper we become aware of the PEG ratio of the LYG stock which is currently positioned at 0. It further provides that stock’s current price level is 8.01% away from its 20-day simple moving average and is 10.37% off its SMA50. Its relative strength index (RSI) for 14-periods is oscillating at 69.16 while volatility remained at 1.68% over the past week which changes to 1.78% when measuring it over the past month. Beta is valued at 1.30, while measure of average true range or ATR is currently at 0.07. In predicting price targets of as low as $2.75 and as high as $2.75, analysts are in agreement on assigning the stock over the next 12 months average price target of $2.75. Stock’s current price level is 10.13% above from estimated low price target while it is 10.13% below the estimated high; and even if the LYG’s share succeeded to reach the median price of $2.75, then the outlook of 10.13% could come to the excitement of the investors.
Having a second look at Lloyds Banking Group plc ADR (NYSE:LYG) provides that stock’s average daily trading volume for 3 months was 11.99 million, while it jumped to 18941090 when we calculate an average volume for past 10 days. Number of outstanding shares of the stock stood at 15.35 billion.
The percentage of outstanding shares held by the insiders is 0.03% while it is 2.57% for the institutional holders. The figures also indicate that as of 2025-01-15, number of stock’s short shares was 8.39 million which implies a short ratio of 0.66. This shows up a 6.00 of Short Interest in company’s outstanding shares on the day. In January the standing of shares short improved as it was 7.19 million in the previous month. Addition of 12.50% by stock’s current price to its year-to-date value in last trading session is likely to be increasing investors’ interest in the stock as it is hinting an extended uptrend.
