Lazard Inc (NYSE:LAZ) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 1.92% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $35.54.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $34.87, falling within a range of $34.645 and $35.73. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.254 whereas the PE ratio was 13.37 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $61.14, and the low was $31.97. On the whole, LAZ has fluctuated by -23.68% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Lazard Inc currently standing at about $3.20 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Jan-29. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 2.00, with its dividend yield at 5.63%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 2.96B, with a low estimate of 619M and a high estimate of 723M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 654.15M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that LAZ’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0.55, with the price of LAZ currently trading nearly -10.90% and -22.08% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 36.98, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.18% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 6.44%. Furthermore, Lazard Inc (LAZ)’s beta value is 1.31, and its average true range (ATR) is 2.64.
A comparison of Lazard Inc (LAZ) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. LAZ showed an intraday change of 1.92% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -4.28%%.
Data on historical trading for Lazard Inc (NYSE:LAZ) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.78 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.28 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 90.30 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 2.86% of Lazard Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 90.47% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 5.45 million shares as on 2025-03-31, resulting in a short ratio of 4.25. According to the data, the short interest in Lazard Inc (LAZ) stood at 622.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-31; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-28 reached 6.44 million. The stock has fallen by -30.96% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the LAZ stock heading into the next quarter.
