Leslie's - LESL Stock Forecast, Price & News

11 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Leslie's in the last year. There are currently 6 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities 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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11 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for Leslie's' shares. Their LESL share price forecasts range from $14.00 to $31.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $19.70 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 39.2% from the stock's current price.
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Leslie's' stock was trading at $23.66 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, LESL shares have decreased by 40.2% and is now trading at $14.15.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 1st 2023.
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Leslie's, Inc. (NASDAQ:LESL) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 3rd. The company reported ($0.06) earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of ($0.06). The business had revenue of $184.82 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $165.64 million. Leslie's had a net margin of 9.74% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 49.59%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned ($0.17) earnings per share.

Leslie's issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Wednesday, November, 30th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.78-$0.86 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.98. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.56 billion-$1.64 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.66 billion.

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

Leslie's trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "LESL."

Leslie's' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (10.62%), Vanguard Group Inc. (7.89%), Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC (5.28%), Pictet Asset Management SA (2.93%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (2.89%) and Spyglass Capital Management LLC (2.77%). 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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One share of LESL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $14.15.

Leslie's (NASDAQ:LESL) has a market capitalization of $2.59 billion and generates $1.34 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $126.63 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.78 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 3,700 workers across the globe.

The official website for the company is lesliespool.com. The company can be reached via phone at 602 366 3999 or via email at investorrelations@lesl.com.