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Stock Valuation: Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE)

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Lumentum is part of the communication equipment industry and trades as part of the technology sector. Lumentum Inc offers optical and photonic products addressing end markets including data communications and telecommunications networking and industrial and commercial lasers for manufacturing, inspection and life-science applications.

Previous Intraday Trading Performance:

The LITE stock showed a previous change of 6.33% with an open at 42.08 and a close of 43.87. It reached an intraday high of 43.98 and a low of 42.01.

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Liquidity:

The stock has a market cap of $3.4b with 76.4m shares outstanding, of which the float is 75.6m shares. Trading volume reached 1,927,943 shares compared to its average volume of 1,857,395 shares. Based on the current average volume and close price, the trading liquidity is good.

Historical Trading Performance:

Over the last five trading days, Lumentum shares returned 4.33% and in the past 30 trading days it returned -29.34%. Over three months, it changed -13.57%. In one year it has changed -27.61% and within that year its 52-week high was 69.95 and its 52-week low was 37.00. LITE stock is 18.57% above its 52 Week Low.

Our calculations show a 200 day moving average of 52.62 and a 50 day moving average of 55.26. Currently LITE stock is trading -16.63% below its 200 day moving average and may not be a good opportunity to buy as it may continue to trend down.

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Earnings:

The last annual fiscal EPS for the company was reported at 3.64 that ended on 30th of June 2018, which according to the previous close, that is a PE of 12.05. Based on 6 analyst estimates, the consensus EPS for the next quarter is 0.85. The TTM EPS is 4.02, which comes to a TTM PE of 10.91.

Below was the last reported quarterly diluted earnings per share:

1stQtr of 2019 (Reported on 05/07/2019): -0.98
4thQtr of 2018 (Reported on 02/05/2019): 0.08
3rdQtr of 2018 (Reported on 11/01/2018): 0.72
2ndQtr of 2018 (Reported on 08/08/2018): 0.40
1stQtr of 2018 (Reported on 05/02/2018): 0.04

Base on our calculations, the intrinsic value per share is 100.56, which means it is possibly undervalued and has a margin of safety of 56.37%.

Indicators to Watch:

The current calculated beta is 1.04.

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Fundamental Indicators:

Based on last reported financials, the company’s return on equity is 1.71%, return on assets is 0.95%, profit margin is 1.57%, price-to-sales is 2.16 and price-to-book is 2.10.

Company Scores:

All scores are out of six:
 2  :Valuation Score
 2  :Past Performance Score
 4  :Financial Strength Score
 5  :Future Growth Score
 0  :Dividend Score
 3  :Overall Score

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