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How to buy Legacy Housing Corporation stock
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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 870 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.
How to buy shares in Legacy Housing Corporation
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- Open your brokerage account. Complete an application with your details.
- Confirm your payment details. Fund your account.
- Research the stock. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol – LEGH – and research it before deciding if it's a good investment for you.
- Purchase now or later. Buy your desired number of shares with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until the stock reaches a desired price.
- Check in on your investment. Optimize your portfolio by tracking your stock.
What's in this guide?
- LEGH shares summary
- Compare share dealing platforms
- Is LEGH stock a buy or sell?
- Stock performance over time
- Can I short LEGH shares?
- Are LEGH shares over-valued?
- Legacy Housing Corporation's financials
- How volatile are LEGH shares?
- Does Legacy Housing Corporation pay a dividend?
- Other common questions
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 2021-04-29.
| 52-week range | $9.10 - $19.51 |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | $17.85 |
| 200-day moving average | $15.77 |
| Wall St. target price | $20.33 |
| PE ratio | 11.3138 |
| Dividend yield | N/A (0%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.57 |
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Is it a good time to buy Legacy Housing Corporation stock?
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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 $48.8 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 | $176.7 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 26.93% |
| Gross profit TTM | $67 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 9.56% |
| Return on equity TTM | 15.78% |
| Profit margin | 21.5% |
| Book value | $10.71 |
| Market capitalisation | $429.4 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Shorting Legacy Housing Corporation shares
There are currently 125,007 Legacy Housing Corporation shares held short by investors – that's known as Legacy Housing Corporation's "short interest". This figure is 34.5% up from 92,917 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 44966.54676259). Legacy Housing Corporation's SIR currently stands at 2.78. In other words for every 100,000 Legacy Housing Corporation shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2780 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 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Legacy Housing Corporation shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0157% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Legacy Housing Corporation shares, roughly 16 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 share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Legacy Housing Corporation's shares have ranged in value from as little as $9.0976 up to $19.51. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Legacy Housing Corporation's is 1.1374. This would suggest that Legacy Housing Corporation's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
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; and financing to manufactured housing 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 100 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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