Lululemon Athletica inc. (LULU): The Latest Casualty Of Increased Volatility?

Lululemon Athletica inc. (NASDAQ:LULU) does about 1.83M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2278412 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 42.18B USD. Its current market price is $334.76, marking a decrease of -0.41% compared to the previous close of $336.13. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $516.39 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $326.93.

Lululemon Athletica inc. (LULU) has a 20-day trading average at $388.75 and the current price is -35.17% off the 52-week high compared with 2.40% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $431.14 and its 200-day simple moving average is $420.89. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.10%, which increases to 2.55% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 18.26 to suggest the stock is oversold.

The consensus objective for the share price is $471.79, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 29.04% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on April 04, 2024 when Jefferies reiterated the stock to “Underperform” and issued a price target of between $300 and $240. Exane BNP Paribas downgraded its price target at $430-$415.

Lululemon Athletica inc. (LULU) stock is down -7.13% over the week and -28.78% over the past month. Its price is -34.53% year-to-date and -8.13% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 29.04 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 28.78% and return on equity of 42.01%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 27.42 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 21.11. The beta has a value of 1.32. Price to book ratio is 9.98 and price to sales ratio is 4.39.