Look Past The Setbacks And Give Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ: LPSN) Another Chance

Liveperson Inc (NASDAQ:LPSN) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.58M but it saw 4751159 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 113.86M USD, the company’s current market price of $1.28 came rising about 1.98 while comparing to the previous closing price of $1.26. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $5.98 and as low as $0.45.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Liveperson Inc (LPSN) gives us an average price of $0.8742, while its current price level is -78.51% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 185.24% 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 $0.7386 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $1.8625. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 26.58% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 16.43%. 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 68.86 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the ROTH MKM which downgraded the stock as “Neutral” in its note to investors issued on February 29, 2024, recommending a price target of between $6 and $2 for it. ROTH MKM upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Neutral” on August 09, 2023 while assigning a price target of $6. Craig Hallum issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock is $7.

Over the week, LPSN’s stock price is moving 21.23% up while it is 123.71% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -66.09% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -73.51%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 0.12 beat the consensus estimate of -0.38 for the same. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $73.8M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $308.9M and seeing the company making $302.23M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $77.36M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Liveperson Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 87.84M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -22.27% and return on equity (ROE) at -281.86%. Stock’s beta reads 1.60. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 5.92 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.30. Its return on asset (ROA) is -14.11% on average.