NYSE:LRNK12 Stock Price, Forecast & News

K12's stock was trading at $17.16 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, LRN stock has increased by 42.2% and is now trading at $24.41. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for K12 in the last year. There are currently 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for K12.

K12 is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 4th 2020. View our earnings forecast for K12.

K12 Inc. (NYSE:LRN) posted its earnings results on Monday, April, 27th. The company reported $0.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.19 by $0.03. The business had revenue of $257.15 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $253.83 million. K12 had a return on equity of 3.56% and a net margin of 2.23%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 1.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.44 earnings per share. View K12's earnings history.

K12 issued an update on its FY 2020 After-Hours earnings guidance on Monday, April, 27th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.033-1.04 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.03 billion.

4 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for K12's stock. Their forecasts range from $23.00 to $30.00. On average, they expect K12's share price to reach $27.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 13.3% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for K12.

Headlines about LRN stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. K12 earned a news impact score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View the latest news aboutK12.

K12 saw a increase in short interest in May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,420,000 shares, an increase of 10.1% from the April 30th total of 1,290,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 743,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.9 days. Approximately 3.6% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View K12's Current Options Chain.

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K12 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LRN."

K12's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (7.09%), Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. (3.97%), Acadian Asset Management LLC (2.80%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (2.76%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (2.56%) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2.20%). Company insiders that own K12 stock include Howard D Polsky, Kevin Chavous and Nathaniel A Davis. View institutional ownership trends for K12.

LRN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., AQR Capital Management LLC, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Federated Hermes Inc., Janus Henderson Group PLC, Alliancebernstein L.P., Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC, and Principal Financial Group Inc.. View insider buying and selling activity for K12.

LRN stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc., Portolan Capital Management LLC, Matarin Capital Management LLC, Invenomic Capital Management LP, Systematic Financial Management LP, Alyeska Investment Group L.P., Rice Hall James & Associates LLC, and Commonwealth Equity Services LLC. View insider buying and selling activity for K12.

Shares of LRN 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 LRN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $24.41.

K12 has a market capitalization of $1.00 billion and generates $1.02 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $37.21 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.91 on an earnings per share basis. K12 employs 4,550 workers across the globe.

The official website for K12 is www.k12.com.

K12's mailing address is 2300 Corporate Park Drive, Herndon VA, 20171. The company can be reached via phone at 703-483-7000 or via email at [email protected]