Levi Strauss & Co. (LEVI) Stock Price, News & Analysis

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Levi Strauss & Co. in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" LEVI shares.
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7 analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Levi Strauss & Co.'s stock. Their LEVI share price targets range from $14.00 to $25.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $20.56 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.8%.
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Levi Strauss & Co.'s stock was trading at $16.54 at the start of the year. Since then, LEVI stock has increased by 25.3% and is now trading at $20.72.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 4th 2024.
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Levi Strauss & Co. (NYSE:LEVI) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, April, 3rd. The blue-jean maker reported $0.26 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.21 by $0.05. The blue-jean maker had revenue of $1.56 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.55 billion. Levi Strauss & Co. had a net margin of 2.05% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 20.68%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 7.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.34 EPS.

Levi Strauss & Co. announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 3rd. Investors of record on Thursday, May 9th will be given a dividend of $0.12 per share on Thursday, May 23rd. This represents a $0.48 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.32%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, May 8th.
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Levi Strauss & Co. (NYSE:LEVI) pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.32%. The dividend payout ratio is 154.84%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, LEVI will have a dividend payout ratio of 32.88% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Levi Strauss & Co. (NYSE:LEVI) stock in their portfolio include Putnam Sustainable Future ETF (PFUT), Hartford Multifactor Small Cap ETF (ROSC) and Small Cap US Equity Select ETF (RNSC).WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Fund (EES).

Levi Strauss & Co. updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Wednesday, April, 3rd. The company provided EPS guidance of 1.170-1.270 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 1.210. The company issued revenue guidance of $6.2 billion-$6.4 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $6.3 billion.

674 employees have rated Levi Strauss & Co. Chief Executive Officer Chip Bergh on Glassdoor.com. Chip Bergh has an approval rating of 92% among the company's employees. This puts Chip Bergh in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Levi Strauss & Co. (LEVI) raised $550 million in an initial public offering on Thursday, March 21st 2019. The company issued 36,700,000 shares at $14.00-$16.00 per share. Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan served as the underwriters for the IPO and BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Evercore ISI, BNP PARIBAS, Citigroup, Guggenheim Securities, HSBC, Drexel Hamilton, Telsey Advisory Group and The Williams Capital Group were co-managers.

Levi Strauss & Co.'s stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.31%), Sound Income Strategies LLC (0.02%), Perpetual Ltd (0.01%), Washington Capital Management Inc. (0.00%) and BTC Capital Management Inc. (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Bradley J Haas, Daniel S Haas, David A Friedman, Elizabeth H Eisenhardt, Elizabeth H Eisenhardt, Elizabeth T O'neill, Jennifer A Sey, Jenny J Ming, Kenneth John Stephon, Lisa Stirling, Marc Ostryniec, Margaret E Haas, Miriam L Haas, Patricia Salas Pineda, Peter E Jr Haas, Raphael Goszcz Crawford, Robert D Haas, Seth Jaffe, Seth M Ellison and Tracy Layney.
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