Press coverage about Lsb Industries (NYSE:LXU) has been trending somewhat positive on Sunday, Accern Sentiment reports. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than 20 million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Lsb Industries earned a coverage optimism score of 0.07 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned media headlines about the conglomerate an impact score of 47.8673774667591 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company’s share price in the next few days.
Here are some of the media headlines that may have impacted Accern Sentiment Analysis’s analysis:
- LSB Industries Inc (LXU) Awesome Oscillator Building Momentum - Evergreen Caller (evergreencaller.com)
- Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. (OCUL) Trading Down 3.8% After Analyst Downgrade (fishinghd.com)
- LSB Industries, Inc. (LXU) stock lost -27.08% below SMA-20 - Street Observer (press release) (streetobserver.com)
- Can LSB Industries Inc (LXU) Thread the Needle? Technical Update - Wall Street Review (thewallstreetreview.com)
Lsb Industries (NYSE:LXU) traded up 5.66% on Friday, reaching $6.91. The company had a trading volume of 837,003 shares. Lsb Industries has a 52-week low of $4.52 and a 52-week high of $12.84. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $10.14 and a 200 day moving average price of $9.28. The stock has a market capitalization of $196.28 million, a PE ratio of 3.33 and a beta of 4.54.
Lsb Industries (NYSE:LXU) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, July 25th. The conglomerate reported ($0.53) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks’ consensus estimate of ($0.27) by $0.26. Lsb Industries had a negative return on equity of 1.11% and a net margin of 24.04%. The firm had revenue of $122.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $138.21 million. During the same quarter last year, the business posted ($0.73) EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 11.7% compared to the same quarter last year. Analysts expect that Lsb Industries will post ($2.57) EPS for the current year.
Several equities research analysts recently issued reports on LXU shares. Zacks Investment Research upgraded Lsb Industries from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, June 6th. ValuEngine upgraded Lsb Industries from a “strong sell” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 25th.
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About Lsb Industries
LSB Industries, Inc is a holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the manufacture and sale of chemical products. The Company operates through chemical business segment. It is a manufacturer and distributor of nitrogen fertilizer and other nitrogen products in North America.
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