Lyft Inc (NASDAQ: LYFT): Retirees Don’t Worry About Volatility

Lyft Inc (NASDAQ:LYFT) currently has a daily average trading volume of 18.08M but it saw 17934729 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 6.39B USD, the company’s current market price of $15.86 came rising about 1.41 while comparing to the previous closing price of $15.64. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $20.82 and as low as $7.85.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Lyft Inc (LYFT) gives us an average price of $17.25, while its current price level is -23.82% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 102.04% 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 $17.61 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $13.32. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 4.39% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 5.11%. 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 39.38 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

RBC Capital Mkts upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Outperform” from “Sector Perform” on March 04, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $17-$23.

Over the week, LYFT’s stock price is moving -2.94% down while it is -14.64% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 5.80% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 49.76%.

Currently, Lyft Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 391.24M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -21.59% and return on equity (ROE) at -73.17%. It has a 18.81 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 2.05. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 11.71 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.45. Its return on asset (ROA) is -7.46% on average.