Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN) price on current trading day, fall -2.17% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $0.92.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $0.94, moving within a range at $0.9001 and $0.956. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.514. Turning to its 52-week performance, $2.08 and $0.45 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, LPSN moved -26.82% over the past month.
Liveperson Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $84.20 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Mar-04.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 64.25M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 64M and 64.71M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -24.54% 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 247.91M, representing a -20.66% decline 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 LPSN 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 50% Sell category.
16 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 6 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 9 recommend LPSN as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 1 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.
LPSN’s current price about -9.49% and -24.44% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 40.42, while 7-day volatility ratio is 8.58% and 7.77% in the 30-day chart. Further, Liveperson Inc (LPSN) has a beta value of 1.60, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.09. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $7, forecast between a low of $1 and high of $20. Looking at the price targets, the low is -8.7% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -2073.91%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -660.87% jump to $7 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.52 over the past 10 days and 3.96 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 91.19 million shares.
The 19.41% of Liveperson Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 22.14% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 9.2 million on 2025-02-28, giving us a short ratio of 4.49. The data shows that as of 2025-02-28 short interest in Liveperson Inc (LPSN) stood at 1164.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 9.09 million registered in 2025-01-31. Current price change has pushed the stock -39.34% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the LPSN stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
