The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Lloyds Banking Group plc ADR (NYSE: LYG)

Lloyds Banking Group plc ADR (NYSE:LYG) currently has a daily average trading volume of 9.34M but it saw 8954303 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 39.78B USD, the company’s current market price of $2.51 came rising about 0.80 while comparing to the previous closing price of $2.49. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $2.72 and as low as $1.88.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Lloyds Banking Group plc ADR (LYG) gives us an average price of $2.58, while its current price level is -7.72% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 33.51% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $2.41 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $2.23. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.19% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 1.90%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 49.09 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Year-to-date it is 5.02% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 4.58%.

Currently, Lloyds Banking Group plc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 15.88B. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 3.62% and return on equity (ROE) at 12.38%. It has a 6.58 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.33. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.78 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.32. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.58% on average.