LivePerson Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:LPSN)

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

LivePerson, Inc. (NASDAQ:LPSN) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July, 31st. The technology company reported ($0.32) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.21) by $0.11. The technology company had revenue of $71 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $70.16 million. LivePerson had a negative net margin of 21.09% and a negative return on equity of 22.65%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 15.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.01 EPS. 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 (EPS) guidance of $-0.29--0.24 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $0.03. The company issued revenue guidance of $74-75 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $74.1 million.

15 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for LivePerson's shares. Their predictions range from $18.56 to $45.00. On average, they anticipate LivePerson's share price to reach $38.10 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for LivePerson.

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

News articles about LPSN stock have trended positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. LivePerson earned a news sentiment score of 2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the technology company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for LivePerson.

LivePerson saw a increase in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 7,780,000 shares, an increase of 6.6% from the August 30th total of 7,300,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 749,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 10.4 days. Approximately 13.0% of the company's stock are short sold. View LivePerson's Current Options Chain.

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LivePerson's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.07%). 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue. 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 $39.20.

LivePerson has a market capitalization of $2.57 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]