Investors Getting Picky When It Comes To Buying Icahn Enterprises L P (IEP)

Icahn Enterprises L P (NASDAQ:IEP) does about 1.37M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1708384 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 5.70B USD. Its current market price is $11.31, marking a decrease of -6.45% compared to the previous close of $12.09. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $22.59 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $9.72.

Icahn Enterprises L P (IEP) has a 20-day trading average at $13.07 and the current price is -49.93% off the 52-week high compared with 16.36% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $13.31 and its 200-day simple moving average is $16.08. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 3.98%, which increases to 5.41% 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 33.66 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $15.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 24.6% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on March 03, 2017 when UBS reiterated the stock to “Sell” and issued a price target of between $30 and $40. UBS downgraded the stock to “Sell” from Neutral on August 18, 2016 at a price target of $52-$30. UBS reiterated its price target at $88-$93.

The current price level is -13.48%, -15.02%, and -29.68% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the IEP price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Icahn Enterprises L P (IEP) stock is down -10.10% over the week and -24.55% over the past month. Its price is -34.21% year-to-date and -34.51% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 9/30/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of -0.32 below consensus estimates by -0.53. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.17 and -0.55 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $2.27B, which analysts say will come at $9.1B for the current fiscal year and next year at $8.69B. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $2.27B.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 24.6 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 504.00M with insiders holding 0.10% of the shares and institutional holders owning 86.81% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -4.58% and return on equity of -12.48%. The forward price to earnings ratio is 14.17. The beta has a value of 0.71. Price to book ratio is 1.67 and price to sales ratio is 0.54.