Here Are the Facts You Need to Understand LPSN

By Scott Lee • Sunday, April 09 12:00 • Permanent Link

With gains of 5.9%, LivePerson was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $4.48 and have logged a 0.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

LivePerson has moved -82.4% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of -7.0%
LPSN has an average analyst rating of hold and is 12.0% away from its mean target price of $4.0 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $-3.21
LivePerson has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of -1.4 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $-0.86 and its forward P/E ratio is -5.2
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 5.0 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
LivePerson is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 27.16 and an average P/B of 6.23
The company has a free cash flow of $-7,255,500.00, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
LivePerson, Inc. engages in conversational artificial intelligence. It operates in two segments, Business and Consumer. The Business segment enables brands to leverage the Conversational Cloud's intelligence engine to connect with consumers through an integrated suite of mobile and online business messaging technologies. The Consumer segment facilitates online transactions between experts and users seeking information and knowledge through mobile and online messaging. The company offers the Conversational Cloud, an enterprise-class cloud-based platform, which enables businesses and consumers to connect through conversational interfaces, such as in-app and mobile messaging. It also provides professional services; Tenfold, a customer experience integration platform; VoiceBase, a voice analytics platform for the enterprise; and online marketplace that connects experts who provide information and knowledge through mobile and online messaging with users. The company sells its products through direct and indirect sales channels to Fortune 500 companies, Internet businesses, online merchants, small business sector, automotive dealers, universities, libraries, government agencies, and not-for-profit organizations. It operates in the United States, Canada, Latin America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. LivePerson, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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