LPL Financial Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:LPLA) shares, rose in value on Friday, March 28, with the stock price up by 1.11% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $336.89.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $333.19, falling within a range of $327.23 and $338.33. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.821 whereas the PE ratio was 24.01 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $384.04, and the low was $187.19. On the whole, LPLA has fluctuated by -6.85% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of LPL Financial Holdings Inc currently standing at about $25.13 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Jan-29. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.20, with its dividend yield at 0.36%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 15.22B, with a low estimate of 3.58B and a high estimate of 3.69B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 3.63B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that LPLA’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a Hold on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 75% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.18, with the price of LPLA currently trading nearly 1.65% and -4.12% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 48.64, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 3.11% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 4.18%. Furthermore, LPL Financial Holdings Inc (LPLA)’s beta value is 0.62, and its average true range (ATR) is 13.20.
A comparison of LPL Financial Holdings Inc (LPLA) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. LPLA showed an intraday change of 1.11% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 29.46%%.
Data on historical trading for LPL Financial Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:LPLA) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.64 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 749.25K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 74.66 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.79% of LPL Financial Holdings Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 96.03% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 1.09 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 1.06. According to the data, the short interest in LPL Financial Holdings Inc (LPLA) stood at 148.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 0.76 million. The stock has risen by 3.18% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the LPLA stock heading into the next quarter.
