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

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

LivePerson, Inc. (NASDAQ:LPSN) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 31st. The technology company reported ($0.32) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' 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 return on equity of 22.65% and a negative net margin of 21.09%. The company's revenue was up 15.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $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 updated 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 estimate of $0.03. The company issued revenue guidance of $74-75 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $74.1 million.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for LivePerson's stock. 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 a possible upside of 4.3% from the stock's current price. 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 stories about LPSN stock have been trending somewhat positive on Saturday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. LivePerson earned a news sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the technology company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for LivePerson.

LivePerson saw a increase in short interest in 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 daily trading volume, of 749,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 10.4 days. Approximately 13.0% of the shares of the company are short sold. 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 shareholders include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.07%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.02%) and NEXT Financial Group Inc (0.01%). 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, NEXT Financial Group Inc and Envestnet Asset Management 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 $36.54.

LivePerson has a market capitalization of $2.39 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]