Leslie's Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:LESL)

9 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Leslie's in the last twelve months. There are currently 9 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" LESL shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in LESL, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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9 brokers have issued 1 year price objectives for Leslie's' shares. Their LESL share price targets range from $5.00 to $7.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $6.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.9% from the stock's current price.
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Leslie's' stock was trading at $12.21 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, LESL shares have decreased by 54.9% and is now trading at $5.51.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 1st 2024.
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Leslie's, Inc. (NASDAQ:LESL) released its earnings results on Tuesday, November, 28th. The company reported $0.14 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.16 by $0.02. The business earned $432.37 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $419.39 million. Leslie's had a net margin of 1.88% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 19.58%. Leslie's's revenue for the quarter was down 9.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.34 earnings per share.

Schwab Ariel ESG ETF holds 17,727 shares of LESL stock, representing 1.38% of its portfolio.

Leslie's updated its FY24 earnings guidance on Tuesday, November, 28th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $0.25-0.33 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $0.46. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.41-1.47 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.50 billion.

(LESL) raised $600 million in an initial public offering on Thursday, October 29th 2020. The company issued 40,000,000 shares at $14.00-$16.00 per share. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and BofA Securities acted as the underwriters for the IPO.

Leslie's' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Ariel Investments LLC (13.58%), Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC (9.30%), Clarkston Capital Partners LLC (8.62%), River Road Asset Management LLC (2.88%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.75%) and DAVENPORT & Co LLC (1.72%). Insiders that own company stock include Brad Gazaway, Investor Aggregator L Bubbles, John Strain, Michael R Egeck, Moyo Labode, Paula Baker, Steven L Ortega, Steven M Weddell and Steven M Weddell.
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Shares of LESL stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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