Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL) price on Wednesday, May 21, fall -9.79% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $0.79.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $0.87, moving within a range at $0.7574 and $0.89. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.317. Turning to its 52-week performance, $6.01 and $0.51 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, LESL moved 27.80% over the past month.
Leslies Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $145.76 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-07.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that LESL is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
4 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 4 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 0 recommend LESL 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 Hold which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
LESL’s current price about 7.74% and 9.29% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 52.76, while 7-day volatility ratio is 10.47% and 9.33% in the 30-day chart. Further, Leslies Inc (LESL) has a beta value of 1.51, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.08. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $3, forecast between a low of $3 and high of $3. Looking at the price targets, the low is -279.75% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -279.75%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -279.75% jump to $3 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Leslies Inc (NASDAQ:LESL), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.48 over the past 10 days and 5.11 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 185.40 million shares.
The 3.38% of Leslies Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 95.15% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 15.1 million on 2025-04-30, giving us a short ratio of 4.36. The data shows that as of 2025-04-30 short interest in Leslies Inc (LESL) stood at 1777.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 16.05 million registered in 2025-03-31. Current price change has pushed the stock -64.75% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the LESL stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
