Lloyds Banking Group plc ADR (NYSE:LYG) price on current trading day, rose 0.14% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $3.69.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $3.69. Turning to its 52-week performance, $3.70 and $2.30 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, LYG moved 20.75% over the past month.
Lloyds Banking Group plc ADR’s market cap currently stands at around $55.98 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in March. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.15, with its dividend yield at 4.02%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 4.78B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 4.78B and 4.78B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 5.64% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 18.86B, representing a 2.26% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that LYG is a 100% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 75% Buy category.
3 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 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 3 recommend LYG 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 Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
LYG’s current price about 13.20% and 23.61% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 84.05, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.41% and 1.90% in the 30-day chart. Further, Lloyds Banking Group plc ADR (LYG) has a beta value of 1.21, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.08. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $2.75, forecast between a low of $2.75 and high of $2.75. Looking at the price targets, the low is 25.47% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move 25.47%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 25.47% jump to $2.75 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Lloyds Banking Group plc ADR (NYSE:LYG), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 16.65 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 15.15 billion shares.
The 0.03% of Lloyds Banking Group plc ADR’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 2.68% of the company’s shares. Current price change has pushed the stock 35.85% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the LYG stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
