Liberty Global plc (NASDAQ:LBTYK) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.93M but it saw 2118614 shares traded on Thursday. With a market cap of 8.88B USD, stock’s current market price of $19.74 came rising about 2.07 while comparing to the previous closing price of $19.34. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $27.00 and as low as $16.16. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $19.77 while lowest mark touched by it was $18.03.
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Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Liberty Global plc (LBTYK) gives us an average price of $20.60, while its current price level is -26.89% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 22.15% 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 $21.35 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $20.79. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 4.25% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 2.75%. 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 38.55 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
Liberty Global plc (LBTYK)’s stock is currently under the radar of 15 analysts who are in consensus at a 12-month price target range of between $22.50 and $50.00 for company’s shares. The average price target assigned by the average number of analysts to a stock is a way to gauge worth of any stock in next 52 weeks. And in assigning price target to a stock, some analysts adopt a bearish approach by advocating lower-than-average price target which in this case is $22.50 while some adopt bullish approach by assigning higher-than-average price target which reads the price to top $50.00. Average price target assigned by them is $29.03 which highlights an upside potential of 32.0% for the stock over that period. And to attain the median price target of $27.00 assigned by those analysts, stock has to add about 26.89% of value to its current levels.
Data by FactSet Research shows that 15 analysts have issued their ratings for the stock. 0 of them are in opinions that stock is a Sell, while 0 are advising it as an Overweight. 10 analysts suggested the investors to Buy the stock while 5 advised them to Hold. Recommendations by all of those brokerages imply a consensus rating of Overweight for the stock and that issued by Wall Street to investors is Hold.
The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Pivotal Research Group which reiterated the stock as “Buy” in its note to investors issued on December 17, 2019, recommending a price target of between $30 and $25 for it.
Over the week, LBTYK’s stock price is moving 0.20% up while it is -9.16% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 1.60% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -21.95%.
The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company was for quarter ended 12/30/2021, when its quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of $1.15 beat the consensus estimate of -$0.02 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in 05/09/2023, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of $0 while estimate for next year EPS is $0. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $1.75 billion as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $7.14 billion and seeing the company making $7.02 billion in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $1.85 billion for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Liberty Global plc’s total number of outstanding shares is 271.21M with 7.66% of that held by the insiders while 89.82% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 16.73. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.40 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.23.
As per SEC documents, Dodge & Cox International Stock F sought 8,459,768 of company’s common stock of worth $179.77 million as per recent closing price of the stock. Dodge & Cox International Stock F is not the only institutional holder which restructured its stake in Liberty Global plc, as Government Pension Fund – Global picked 6,172,944 shares of worth $131.18 million to bring its holdings to a total of 0.59 million shares. In the most recent quarter, Vanguard Extended Market Index Fu came cutting its stake by -0.02% in the company and now holds 4.39 million or 1.60% of the company’s stake having worth of about 93.29 million.
