How to buy Lubys stock | 2.91

Luby's, Inc is a restaurants business based in the US. Lubys shares (LUB) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Lubys employs 6,133 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$254.1 million.

How to buy shares in Lubys

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Search for Lubys. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: LUB. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Lubys reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$2.91, 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 Lubys, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Lubys. 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.

How has coronavirus impacted Lubys's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Lubys's share price has had significant positive movement.

Its last market close was USD$2.91, which is 14.09% up on its pre-crash value of USD$2.5 and 532.61% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$0.46.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Lubys shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$211.62 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$1,207.48.

Lubys share price

Use our graph to track the performance of LUB stocks over time.

Lubys shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-11-26.

Latest market close	USD$2.91
52-week range	USD$0.46 - USD$3.3
50-day moving average	USD$2.7925
200-day moving average	USD$1.8039
Wall St. target price	USD$5
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-0.272

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Lubys price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $2.91 from 2020-11-16

1 week (2020-11-20)	-0.34%
1 month (2020-10-30)	8.18%
3 months (2020-08-28)	153.04%
6 months (2020-05-29)	256.62%

1 year (2019-11-29)	39.90%
2 years (2018-11-29)	86.54%
3 years (2017-11-29)	5.05%
5 years (2015-11-27)	-40.61%

Is Lubys under- or over-valued?

Valuing Lubys stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Lubys's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Lubys's EBITDA

Lubys's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$301,000.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Lubys's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Lubys financials

Revenue TTM	USD$254.1 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$87.2 million
Return on assets TTM	-7.81%
Return on equity TTM	-52.54%
Profit margin	-18.18%
Book value	$2.152
Market capitalisation	USD$93.9 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Lubys shares

There are currently 1.9 million Lubys shares held short by investors – that's known as Lubys's "short interest". This figure is 3.3% down from 2.0 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Lubys shares can be evaluated.

Lubys's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Lubys's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Lubys shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Lubys shares traded daily (recently around 193516.97154472). Lubys's SIR currently stands at 9.84. In other words for every 100,000 Lubys shares traded daily on the market, roughly 9840 shares are currently held short.

However Lubys's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Lubys shares, or, against the total number of tradable Lubys shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Lubys's short interest could be expressed as 0.06% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Lubys shares in existence, roughly 60 shares are currently held short) or 0.0818% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Lubys shares, roughly 82 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Lubys.

Find out more about how you can short Lubys stock.

Lubys share dividends

We're not expecting Lubys to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Lubys's shares ever split?

Lubys's shares were split on a 3:2 basis on 6 August 1990. So if you had owned 2 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Lubys shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 33.3% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Lubys shares which in turn could have impacted Lubys's share price.

Lubys share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Lubys's shares have ranged in value from as little as $0.46 up to $3.3. 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 (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Lubys's is 1.0919. This would suggest that Lubys'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).

Lubys overview

Luby's, Inc. provides restaurant services in the United States. It operates through five segments: Luby's restaurants, Fuddruckers restaurants, Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurants, Fuddruckers franchise operations, and Culinary Contract Services. The company operates casual dining restaurants; and offers culinary contract services, including contract arrangements to manage food services for healthcare clients, corporate dining clients, government buildings, and sports stadiums, as well as through retail grocery stores. Its primary brands include Luby's Cafeteria, Fuddruckers - World's Greatest Hamburgers, and Cheeseburger in Paradise, as well as Luby's Culinary Contract Services. As of August 29, 2019, the company operated 124 restaurants; and franchised 102 Fuddruckers restaurants. As of November 15, 2019, it operated 32 locations through Culinary Contract Services. The company was formerly known as Luby's Cafeterias, Inc. Luby's, Inc. was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Lubys is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 39.069% of Lubys shares are held by insiders and 38.012% by institutions.

• How many people work for Lubys?

  Latest data suggests 6,133 work at Lubys.

• When does the fiscal year end for Lubys?

  Lubys's fiscal year ends in August.

• Where is Lubys based?

  Lubys's address is: 13111 Northwest Freeway, Houston, TX, United States, 77040

• What is Lubys's ISIN number?

  Lubys's international securities identification number is: US5492821013

• What is Lubys's CUSIP number?

  Lubys's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 549282101