Leidos Holdings Inc (NYSE: LDOS) kicked off on Tuesday, up 2.01% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $186.32. Over the past 52 weeks, LDOS has traded in a range of $102.21-$188.36.
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Technology Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 8.68% over the last five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 34.72%. With a float of $131.77 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $135.77 million.
The firm has a total of 47000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 16.59%, operating margin of 10.85%, and the pretax margin is 9.67%.
Leidos Holdings Inc (LDOS) Insider Activity
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Information Technology Services Industry. The insider ownership of Leidos Holdings Inc is 1.25%, while institutional ownership is 77.96%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Oct 31 ’24, was worth 193,632. In this transaction Director of this company sold 1,047 shares at a rate of $184.94, taking the stock ownership to the 6,408 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Oct 31 ’24, when Company’s Director proposed sale 1,047 for $185.74, making the entire transaction worth $194,470.
Leidos Holdings Inc (LDOS) Earnings and Forecasts
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 9/30/2024, the organization reported 1.99 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 1.74) by 0.25. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.49 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 34.72% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 14.26% during the next five years compared to -17.61% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Leidos Holdings Inc (NYSE: LDOS) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Leidos Holdings Inc’s (LDOS) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 1.15. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.56. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 20.19.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 8.78, a number that is poised to hit 2.25 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 10.34 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Leidos Holdings Inc (LDOS)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Leidos Holdings Inc, LDOS], we can find that recorded value of 1.17 million was better than the volume posted last year of 0.86 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 88.28%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.51.
During the past 100 days, Leidos Holdings Inc’s (LDOS) raw stochastic average was set at 99.64%, which indicates a significant increase from 99.24% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 38.39% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 22.49% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $164.31, while its 200-day Moving Average is $143.47. Now, the first resistance to watch is $191.44. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $192.81. The third major resistance level sits at $195.37. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $187.51, it is likely to go to the next support level at $184.95. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $183.58.
Leidos Holdings Inc (NYSE: LDOS) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 25.36 billion has total of 133,433K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 15,438 M in contrast with the sum of 199,000 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 4,190 M and last quarter income was 364,000 K.
