Why LifeStance Health Group Inc (NASDAQ: LFST) At $6.66 Is Worth Your Money?

LifeStance Health Group Inc (NASDAQ:LFST) does about 1.23M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1332465 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 2.55B USD. Its current market price is $6.66, marking an increase of 1.99% compared to the previous close of $6.53. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $9.59 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $4.74.

LifeStance Health Group Inc (LFST) has a 20-day trading average at $6.10 and the current price is -30.55% off the 52-week high compared with 40.65% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $6.44 and its 200-day simple moving average is $6.86. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 4.37%, which decreases to 3.98% 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 64.65 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $8.79, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 24.23% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on January 03, 2024 when Barclays initiated the stock to “Underweight” and issued a price target of $7. TD Cowen downgraded the stock to “Market Perform” from Outperform on May 15, 2023 at a price target of $8-$9. Morgan Stanley upgraded its price target at $8.

LifeStance Health Group Inc (LFST) stock is up 7.42% over the week and 10.82% over the past month. Its price is -14.94% year-to-date and -17.37% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 24.23 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -9.85% and return on equity of -12.64%. The beta has a value of 1.29. Price to book ratio is 1.77 and price to sales ratio is 2.41.