As on May 18, 2023, Leidos Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LDOS) got off with the flyer as it spiked 0.47% to $78.92. During the day, the stock rose to $79.04 and sunk to $77.49 before settling in for the price of $78.55 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, LDOS posted a 52-week range of $76.58-$110.91.
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The company of the Technology sector’s yearbook sales growth during the past 5- year span was recorded 7.20%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 24.90%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -5.70%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $137.00 million, simultaneously with a float of $135.44 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $10.74 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $88.73, while the 200-day Moving Average is $96.72.
It is imperative to bring your focus towards the efficiency factor of the conglomerate that has a total of 45000 employees. It has generated 319,911 per worker during the last fiscal year. Meanwhile, its income per employee was 15,222. The stock had 6.34 Receivables turnover and 1.09 Total Asset turnover. For the Profitability, stocks gross margin was +14.48, operating margin was +7.88 and Pretax Margin of +6.15.
Leidos Holdings Inc. (LDOS) Ownership Facts and Figures
Another important factor to analyze is how key investors are playing towards the stock of the Information Technology Services industry. Leidos Holdings Inc.’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.50%, in contrast to 78.60% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on May 11, this organization’s Director sold 2,618 shares at the rate of 78.71, making the entire transaction reach 206,061 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 11,352. Preceding that transaction, on May 05, Company’s Director bought 125 for 80.76, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 10,095. This particular insider is now the holder of 13,833 in total.
Leidos Holdings Inc. (LDOS) Earnings and Revenue Records
If we go through the results of last quarter, which was made public on 3/30/2023, the company posted $1.47 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, coming under the agreed prediction (set at $1.59) by -$0.12. This company achieved a net margin of +4.76 while generating a return on equity of 15.95. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.7 per share during the current fiscal year.
Leidos Holdings Inc.’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -5.70% and is forecasted to reach 7.34 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 6.55% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 24.90% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Leidos Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LDOS) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Leidos Holdings Inc. (LDOS). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 1.10. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 2.14. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $16.21, and its Beta score is 0.79. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.74. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 23.50.
In the same vein, LDOS’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 4.87, a figure that is expected to reach 1.59 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 7.34 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Leidos Holdings Inc. (LDOS)
Through scrutinizing the latest numbers posted by the [Leidos Holdings Inc., LDOS], it can be observed that its last 5-days Average volume of 1.3 million was better the volume of 0.98 million, it posted the year before. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 29.90% While, its Average True Range was 2.12.
Raw Stochastic average of Leidos Holdings Inc. (LDOS) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 7.70%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 12.84% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 67.44% that was higher than 32.61% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
