Centrus Energy Corp (AMEX:LEU) price on current trading day, rose 4.98% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $240.93.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $229.51, moving within a range at $232.73 and $246.59. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.464 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 37.78. Turning to its 52-week performance, $250.88 and $33.51 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, LEU moved 25.37% over the past month.
Centrus Energy Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $4.10 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Jun-20.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 131.14M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 97.87M and 170M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -30.61% 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 433.76M, representing a -1.86% 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 LEU 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 100% 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 LEU 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.
LEU’s current price about 19.25% and 47.90% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 67.52, while 7-day volatility ratio is 7.85% and 9.13% in the 30-day chart. Further, Centrus Energy Corp (LEU) has a beta value of 1.37. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $167, forecast between a low of $129 and high of $205. Looking at the price targets, the low is 46.46% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move 14.91%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 30.69% jump to $167 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Centrus Energy Corp (AMEX:LEU), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.31 over the past 10 days and 1.22 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 16.32 million shares.
The 8.31% of Centrus Energy Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 73.99% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 2.88 million on 2025-06-30, giving us a short ratio of 1.87. The data shows that as of 2025-06-30 short interest in Centrus Energy Corp (LEU) stood at 1780.9999 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 2.92 million registered in 2025-05-30. Current price change has pushed the stock 451.83% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the LEU stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
