NYSE:LRNK12 Stock Price, Forecast & News

K12's stock was trading at $17.16 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, LRN shares have increased by 179.7% and is now trading at $48.00.
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4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for K12 in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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K12 is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 11th 2020.
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K12 Inc. (NYSE:LRN) issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, April, 27th. The company reported $0.22 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.19 by $0.03. The firm had revenue of $257.15 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $253.83 million. K12 had a net margin of 2.23% and a return on equity of 3.56%. K12's revenue was up 1.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.44 earnings per share.
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4 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for K12's stock. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $34.00. On average, they expect K12's stock price to reach $32.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 33.3%.
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News stories about LRN stock have trended somewhat negative on Tuesday, according to InfoTrie. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public 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 -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days.
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K12 saw a increase in short interest in July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,330,000 shares, an increase of 22.0% from the July 15th total of 1,910,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,050,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.2 days. Approximately 5.9% of the company's stock are short sold.
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Some companies that are related to K12 include Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Strategic Education (STRA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), American Public Education (APEI), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), National American University Holdngs (NAUH), Corinthian Colleges (COCOQ) and ITT Educational Services (ESINQ).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other K12 investors own include Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Chegg (CHGG), AbbVie (ABBV), Pfizer (PFE), Shopify (SHOP), Alibaba Group (BABA), AT&T (T), General Electric (GE), Livongo Health (LVGO) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

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

K12's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Palisade Capital Management LLC NJ (1.91%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.72%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.58%), Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC (0.45%), New York State Common Retirement Fund (0.39%) and North Star Investment Management Corp. (0.30%). Company insiders that own K12 stock include Howard D Polsky, James Jeaho Rhyu, Kevin Chavous, Nathaniel A Davis and Vincent Mathis.
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LRN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Russell Investments Group Ltd., Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC, and Brinker Capital Inc.. Company insiders that have sold K12 company stock in the last year include James Jeaho Rhyu, Kevin Chavous, Nathaniel A Davis, and Vincent Mathis.
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LRN stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC, Principal Financial Group Inc., WINTON GROUP Ltd, North Star Investment Management Corp., Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc., Swiss National Bank, Alpha Windward LLC, and Arizona State Retirement System.
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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 $48.00.

K12 has a market capitalization of $1.97 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]