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How to buy Legacy Housing Corporation stock | $14.72
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Legacy Housing Corporation is a residential construction business based in the US. Legacy Housing Corporation shares (LEGH) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Legacy Housing Corporation employs 800 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$171.3 million.
How to buy shares in Legacy Housing Corporation
- Compare share trading platforms. If you're a beginner, look for a platform with low commissions, expert ratings and investment tools to track your portfolio. Narrow down top brands with our comparison table.
- Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
- Search for Legacy Housing Corporation. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: LEGH. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
- Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Legacy Housing Corporation reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
- Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$14.72, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Legacy Housing Corporation, depending on your broker.
- Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Legacy Housing Corporation. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.
Legacy Housing Corporation share price
Use our graph to track the performance of LEGH stocks over time.Legacy Housing Corporation shares at a glance
Information last updated 2020-11-30.
| Latest market close | USD$14.72 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | USD$8.5 - USD$17.4986 |
| 50-day moving average | USD$14.5588 |
| 200-day moving average | USD$14.0082 |
| Wall St. target price | USD$18.67 |
| PE ratio | 10.7949 |
| Dividend yield | N/A (0%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$1.409 |
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Legacy Housing Corporation price performance over time
Historical closes compared with the close of $14.72 from 2020-12-09
| 1 week (2021-01-15) | -1.08% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2020-12-23) | -0.61% |
| 3 months (2020-10-22) | 2.08% |
| 6 months (2020-07-22) | 7.05% |
| 1 year (2020-01-22) | 2.15% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2019-01-22) | 13.67% |
| 3 years (2018-01-19) | N/A |
| 5 years (2016-01-19) | N/A |
Is Legacy Housing Corporation under- or over-valued?
Valuing Legacy Housing Corporation stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Legacy Housing Corporation's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Legacy Housing Corporation's P/E ratio
Legacy Housing Corporation's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 11x. In other words, Legacy Housing Corporation shares trade at around 11x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Legacy Housing Corporation's EBITDA
Legacy Housing Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$44.5 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Legacy Housing Corporation's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Legacy Housing Corporation financials
| Revenue TTM | USD$171.3 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 25.34% |
| Gross profit TTM | USD$64.1 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 9.19% |
| Return on equity TTM | 14.81% |
| Profit margin | 20.06% |
| Book value | $10.278 |
| Market capitalisation | USD$368 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Shorting Legacy Housing Corporation shares
There are currently 81,339 Legacy Housing Corporation shares held short by investors – that's known as Legacy Housing Corporation's "short interest". This figure is 12.4% down from 92,805 last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Legacy Housing Corporation shares can be evaluated.
Legacy Housing Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR)
Legacy Housing Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Legacy Housing Corporation shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Legacy Housing Corporation shares traded daily (recently around 26581.37254902). Legacy Housing Corporation's SIR currently stands at 3.06. In other words for every 100,000 Legacy Housing Corporation shares traded daily on the market, roughly 3060 shares are currently held short.
However Legacy Housing Corporation's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Legacy Housing Corporation shares, or, against the total number of tradable Legacy Housing Corporation shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Legacy Housing Corporation's short interest could be expressed as 0% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Legacy Housing Corporation shares in existence, roughly 0 shares are currently held short) or 0.0102% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Legacy Housing Corporation shares, roughly 10 shares are currently held short).
Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Legacy Housing Corporation.
Find out more about how you can short Legacy Housing Corporation stock.
Legacy Housing Corporation share dividends
We're not expecting Legacy Housing Corporation to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Legacy Housing Corporation overview
Legacy Housing Corporation builds, sells, and finances manufactured homes and tiny houses primarily in the southern United States. The company manufactures and provides for the transport of mobile homes; and offers wholesale financing to dealers and mobile home parks, as well as a range of homes, including 1 to 5 bedrooms, with 1 to 3 1/2 bathrooms. It also provides floor plan or wholesale financing for independent retailers; consumer financing for its products sold to end-users; and financing to community owners that buy its products for use in their rental housing communities. The company markets its homes under the Legacy brand through a network of 85 independent and 13 company-owned retail locations, as well as direct sales to owners of manufactured home communities in 15 states in the United States. Legacy Housing Corporation was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Bedford, Texas.
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