4.15% volatility in LPL Financial Holdings Inc (LPLA) last month: This is a red flag warning

On Tuesday, LPL Financial Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: LPLA) was -0.96% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $221.43. A 52-week range for LPLA has been $187.19 – $289.88.

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Annual sales at Financial sector company grew by 14.51% over the past five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 1.86%. With a float of $74.07 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $74.66 million.

Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 8400 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 33.2%, operating margin of 17.56%, and the pretax margin is 12.04%.

LPL Financial Holdings Inc (LPLA) Insider Updates

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward LPL Financial Holdings Inc stocks. The insider ownership of LPL Financial Holdings Inc is 0.94%, while institutional ownership is 97.22%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jun 14 ’24, was worth 1,574,289. In this transaction President & CEO of this company sold 5,677 shares at a rate of $277.31, taking the stock ownership to the 142,608 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 26 ’24, when Company’s Managing Director sold 1,300 for $266.50, making the entire transaction worth $346,451. This insider now owns 10,245 shares in total.

LPL Financial Holdings Inc (LPLA) Performance Highlights and Predictions

Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 6/30/2024, it has been observed that the corporation posted 3.74 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was better than consensus figure (set at 3.57) by 0.17. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 4.07 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 1.86% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 12.40% during the next five years compared to 23.07% growth over the previous five years of trading.

LPL Financial Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: LPLA) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what LPL Financial Holdings Inc (LPLA) is doing with its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.50. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 109.14.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 12.81, a number that is poised to hit 3.78 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 19.60 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of LPL Financial Holdings Inc (LPLA)

LPL Financial Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: LPLA) saw its 5-day average volume 0.93 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 0.71 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 87.89%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 8.51.

During the past 100 days, LPL Financial Holdings Inc’s (LPLA) raw stochastic average was set at 31.28%, which indicates a significant decrease from 86.32% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 53.97% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 36.63% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $244.11, while its 200-day Moving Average is $248.49. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $221.04 in the near term. At $222.77, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $224.38. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $217.70, it is likely to go to the next support level at $216.09. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $214.36.

LPL Financial Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: LPLA) Key Stats

There are 74,709K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 16.40 billion. As of now, sales total 10,053 M while income totals 1,066 M. Its latest quarter income was 2,932 M while its last quarter net income were 243,800 K.