NASDAQ:LPSN - LivePerson Stock Price, News & Analysis

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

LivePerson, Inc. (NASDAQ:LPSN) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July, 31st. The technology company reported ($0.32) EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($0.21) by $0.11. The technology company earned $71 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $70.16 million. LivePerson had a negative return on equity of 22.65% and a negative net margin of 21.09%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 15.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.01 earnings per share. View LivePerson's Earnings History.

LivePerson is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 14th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for LivePerson.

LivePerson issued an update on its third quarter 2019 earnings guidance on Wednesday, July, 31st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $-0.29--0.24 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.03. The company issued revenue guidance of $74-75 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $74.1 million.

14 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for LivePerson's shares. Their forecasts range from $18.56 to $45.00. On average, they expect LivePerson's share price to reach $36.0721 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 8.4%. View Analyst Price Targets for LivePerson.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for LivePerson in the last year. There are currently 14 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for LivePerson.

News coverage about LPSN stock has trended positive on Sunday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. LivePerson earned a daily sentiment score of 2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the technology company a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for LivePerson.

LivePerson saw a increase in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 4,852,600 shares, an increase of 11.5% from the June 30th total of 4,353,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 666,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 7.3 days. Currently, 8.4% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View LivePerson's Current Options Chain.

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LivePerson's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (14.09%), BlackRock Inc. (14.09%), Vanguard Group Inc. (9.51%), RGM Capital LLC (3.15%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (1.61%) and Janus Henderson Group PLC (1.59%). Company insiders that own LivePerson stock include Alexander Spinelli, Christopher E Greiner, Daniel Richard Murphy, Daryl Carlough, David Vaskevitch, Dustin Dean, 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 Renaissance Technologies LLC, RGM Capital LLC, Vista Equity Partners Management LLC, D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., Jane Street Group LLC, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc., Cortina Asset Management LLC and Mivtachim The Workers Social Insurance Fund Ltd. Under Special Management. Company insiders that have sold LivePerson company stock in the last year include Alexander Spinelli, Christopher E Greiner, Daryl Carlough, Eran Vanounou, Kevin Lavan, Monica L Greenberg and Robert P Locascio. View Insider Buying and Selling for LivePerson.

LPSN stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., BlackRock Inc., Altshuler Shaham Ltd, Intrinsic Edge Capital Management LLC, Granite Investment Partners LLC, Castleark Management LLC, Morgan Stanley and Nuveen Asset Management LLC. 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of LPSN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $39.37.

LivePerson has a market capitalization of $2.58 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]