Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN) price on Thursday, April 10, fall -4.55% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $0.71.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $0.74, moving within a range at $0.6744 and $0.73. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.67. Turning to its 52-week performance, $2.08 and $0.45 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, LPSN moved -24.29% over the past month.
Liveperson Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $64.49 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 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% 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 -15.72% and -32.00% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 35.82, while 7-day volatility ratio is 17.94% and 9.99% in the 30-day chart. Further, Liveperson Inc (LPSN) has a beta value of 1.77, 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 -40.85% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -2716.9%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -885.92% 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 1.8 over the past 10 days and 1.99 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 91.19 million shares.
The 16.35% 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 8.79 million on 2025-03-14, giving us a short ratio of 5.24. The data shows that as of 2025-03-14 short interest in Liveperson Inc (LPSN) stood at 1105.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 11.74 million registered in 2025-02-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -53.53% 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.
