NYSE:LAZLazard Stock Price, Forecast & News

Lazard's stock was trading at $29.62 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, LAZ stock has increased by 8.9% and is now trading at $32.26.
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9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Lazard in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Lazard is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 29th 2020.
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Lazard Ltd (NYSE:LAZ) released its earnings results on Friday, July, 31st. The asset manager reported $0.67 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.36 by $0.31. The asset manager earned $572.30 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $513.36 million. Lazard had a return on equity of 51.35% and a net margin of 10.43%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 9.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.73 earnings per share.
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Lazard announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 29th. Stockholders of record on Monday, August 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.47 per share on Friday, August 21st. This represents a $1.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.83%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, August 7th.
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9 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Lazard's stock. Their forecasts range from $24.00 to $48.00. On average, they anticipate Lazard's share price to reach $35.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 8.5% from the stock's current price.
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Press coverage about LAZ stock has trended somewhat positive on Wednesday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm 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 negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Lazard earned a news impact score of 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the asset manager 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 near future.
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Lazard saw a decrease in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,920,000 shares, a decrease of 25.1% from the January 15th total of 3,900,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 798,500 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.7 days. Approximately 2.9% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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Some companies that are related to Lazard include Morgan Stanley (MS), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Charles Schwab (SCHW), TD Ameritrade (AMTD), E*TRADE Financial (ETFC), Raymond James (RJF), LPL Financial (LPLA), Stifel Financial (SF), Evercore (EVR), INTL Fcstone (INTL), Piper Jaffray Companies (PJC), BGC Partners (BGCP), Cowen (COWN), Oppenheimer (OPY) and Greenhill & Co., Inc. (GHL).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Lazard investors own include Bank of America (BAC), AT&T (T), AbbVie (ABBV), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Micron Technology (MU), Verizon Communications (VZ), Walt Disney (DIS), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and CVS Health (CVS).

Lazard trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LAZ."

Lazard's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include LSV Asset Management (2.27%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (1.41%), Hosking Partners LLP (0.66%), Jennison Associates LLC (0.51%), Raymond James & Associates (0.37%) and Private Capital Advisors Inc. (0.29%). Company insiders that own Lazard stock include Alexander F Stern, Dominick Ragone and Scott D Hoffman.
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LAZ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including LSV Asset Management, Strs Ohio, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Jennison Associates LLC, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Lathrop Investment Management Corp, Vident Investment Advisory LLC, and Vident Investment Advisory LLC. Company insiders that have sold Lazard company stock in the last year include Alexander F Stern, Dominick Ragone, and Scott D Hoffman.
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LAZ stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fisher Asset Management LLC, Blue Harbour Group L.P., HighTower Advisors LLC, Private Capital Advisors Inc., UBS Group AG, SG Americas Securities LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, and Gilman Hill Asset Management LLC.
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Shares of LAZ 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 LAZ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $32.26.

Lazard has a market capitalization of $3.39 billion and generates $2.67 billion in revenue each year. The asset manager earns $286.50 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.28 on an earnings per share basis. Lazard employs 3,018 workers across the globe.

The official website for Lazard is www.lazard.com.

Lazard's mailing address is CLARENDON HOUSE 2 CHURCH STREET, HAMILTON D0, HM II. The asset manager can be reached via phone at 441-295-1422 or via email at [email protected]