NASDAQ:LPSN - LivePerson Stock Price, Forecast & News

LivePerson trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "LPSN."

LivePerson, Inc. (NASDAQ:LPSN) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The technology company reported ($0.18) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($0.16) by $0.02. The technology company earned $75.18 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $74.69 million. LivePerson had a negative net margin of 27.03% and a negative return on equity of 33.89%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 17.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.09 earnings per share. View LivePerson's Earnings History.

LivePerson is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 20th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for LivePerson.

LivePerson issued an update on its FY 2019 After-Hours earnings guidance on Monday, November, 25th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $-1.51--1.45 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $-0.26. The company issued revenue guidance of $$289.5-292.5 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $$290.65 million.

16 brokers have issued 1 year price targets for LivePerson's shares. Their forecasts range from $31.00 to $49.00. On average, they anticipate LivePerson's share price to reach $41.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for LivePerson.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for LivePerson in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 15 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for LivePerson.

Headlines about LPSN stock have trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. LivePerson earned a media sentiment score of 1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the technology company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for LivePerson.

LivePerson saw a increase in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 8,900,000 shares, an increase of 6.1% from the December 15th total of 8,390,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 647,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 13.7 days. Currently, 14.6% of the company's stock are sold short. View LivePerson's Current Options Chain.

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LivePerson's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.07%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.07%), Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.03%), Sciencast Management LP (0.03%), Miles Capital Inc. (0.01%) and Carroll Financial Associates Inc. (0.00%). Company insiders that own LivePerson stock include Alexander Spinelli, Christopher E Greiner, Daniel Richard Murphy, Daryl Carlough, Eran Vanounou, Kevin Lavan, Monica L Greenberg, Peter Block and Robert P Locascio. View Institutional Ownership Trends for LivePerson.

LPSN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Miles Capital Inc., Louisiana State Employees Retirement System and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. Company insiders that have sold LivePerson company stock in the last year include Alexander Spinelli, Christopher E Greiner, Daryl Carlough, Kevin Lavan, Monica L Greenberg and Robert P Locascio. View Insider Buying and Selling for LivePerson.

LPSN stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Calamos Advisors LLC, Sciencast Management LP and Carroll Financial Associates Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for LivePerson.

Shares of LPSN can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of LPSN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $42.87.

LivePerson has a market capitalization of $2.84 billion and generates $249.84 million in revenue each year. The technology company earns $-25,030,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.23) on an earnings per share basis. LivePerson employs 1,106 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About LivePerson.

The official website for LivePerson is http://www.liveperson.com/.

LivePerson's mailing address is 475 10TH AVENUE 5TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY, 10018. The technology company can be reached via phone at 212-609-4200 or via email at [email protected]