Alliant Energy Corp. (NASDAQ:LNT) does about 1.48M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2268875 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 14.64B USD. Its current market price is $57.11, marking an increase of 0.88% compared to the previous close of $56.61. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $56.79 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $45.15. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $65 and a low of $53.
Alliant Energy Corp. (LNT) has a 20-day trading average at $54.72 and the current price is 0.56% off the 52-week high compared with 26.48% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $52.21 and its 200-day simple moving average is $50.33. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.08%, which decreases to 1.71% 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 74.01 to suggest the stock is overbought.
The consensus objective for the share price is $56.22, suggesting that the stock has a potential downside of -1.58% over the period. The median price target is -3.84% away from the current levels at $55.
9 analysts have rated it as a buy and 6 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Moderate Buy the stock.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on January 11, 2024 when BMO Capital Markets downgraded the stock to “Market Perform” and issued a price target of $55. Barclays also downgraded the stock to “Equal Weight” from Overweight on January 02, 2024 at a price target of $50-$53. Scotiabank upgraded its price target at $60-$59.
Alliant Energy Corp. (LNT) stock is up 1.96% over the week and 12.40% over the past month. Its price is 11.33% year-to-date and 7.19% over the past year.
Its 12-month price target is $55. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to shrink -1.58 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $53, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $65.
The company has a return on investment of 3.98% and return on equity of 9.44%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 23.33 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 17.52. The beta has a value of 0.56. Price to book ratio is 2.15 and price to sales ratio is 3.69.
