What’s happening at Lyft, Inc. (NasdaqGS:LYFT)? What made the stock one of the top performing stock today? The company is indeed among the top gainers of the stock market, skyrocketing 8.45% (or 0.91 points) to $11.68 from its previous close of $10.77. So is it the right moment to buy?
The shares had an increased trading volume of 25,967,563 contracts this session compared to the average daily volume of last 10 days of 13,353,910 contracts and they had an increased trading volume compared to the average daily volume of last 3 months of 15,591,831 contracts.
The indicator of a company’s profitability, the earnings per share ratio is -3.81. This value shows how much money a company makes for each share of its stock. A higher EPS indicates more value because investors will pay more for a company with higher profits. This is negative and tells you exactly how much money the company lost per share of its 377.6M outstanding stocks.
The closing market price for this trading session was 48.79% over 52 weeks minimum price of $7.85 and 37.12% under 52 weeks maximum price of $18.58. Also the price is 6.44% greater than 200 day average of $10.97 and 5.69% greater than 50 day average of $11.05.
At post-market close the stock price was $11.70, thus increasing a further 0.17% (or 0.02 points) with respect to regular market close.
Looking at the trading signals for Lyft, Inc. over last 6 months of daily time series of prices, the two-week relative strength index (RSI), a momentum indicator that measures the size of recent changes of price to evaluate overbought or oversold conditions, stands at 0. According to standard usage, it’s value less than 30 indicates that LYFT is becoming oversold or undervalued and may be preparing for a trend reversal or corrective pushback in price. The stochastic oscillator reading, another momentum indicator of overbought and oversold conditions, stands at 0. According to standard usage, it’s value less than 20 is considered in the oversold range. But let’s keep in mind that even stochastic readings very close to thresholds are not indicative of imminent reversal. In fact very strong trends can maintain overbought or oversold conditions for an extended period, but changes in the stochastic oscillator might suggest future trend shifts.
Another important signal comes from the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD), a trend-following momentum indicator. It helps investors understand whether the bullish or bearish movement in the price is strengthening or weakening. Traders keep constatly an eye on the move of the MACD above or below the zero line due to the fact that the reading is an indicator of the position of the 12-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA) relative to the 26-period EMA. It currently stands at 0. Besides, its signal, given by nine-day EMA of the MACD, stands at 0.
Latest news that might have contributed to the great perfomance of LYFT today are:
- Lyft’s new CEO drinks up to three cups of coffee every day and bikes to work every morning. Here’s the Harvard Business grad’s daily routine, published on Sun, 27 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000
- Minneapolis mayor vetoes minimum wage proposal for Uber, Lyft drivers, published on Thu, 24 Aug 2023 21:28:19 +0000
- Uber raises minimum age for most California drivers to 25 after its insurance costs rise by ‘more than 65%’, published on Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:44:41 +0000