LendingTree (TREE) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

LendingTree, Inc., through its subsidiary, operates online consumer platform in the United States. It operates through three segments: Home, Consumer, and Insurance. The Home segment offers purchase mortgage, refinance mortgage, and home equity loans and lines of credit; and real estate brokerage services. The Consumer segment provides credit cards; personal, small business, student, and auto loans; deposit accounts; and other credit products, such as debt settlement services. The Insurance segment includes information, tools, and access to insurance quote products, including home, automobile, and health and Medicare through which consumers are matched with insurance lead aggregators to obtain insurance offers and policies. In addition, the company offers QuoteWizard, a marketplace for insurance comparison; ValuePenguin, a personal finance website that offers consumers objective analysis on various financial topics from insurance to credit cards; and Stash, a consumer investing and banking platform that offers a suite of personal investment accounts, traditional and Roth IRAs, custodial investment accounts, and banking services, including checking accounts and debit cards with a Stock-Back rewards program. The company was formerly known as Tree.com, Inc. and changed its name to LendingTree, Inc. in January 2015. LendingTree, Inc. was incorporated in 1996 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $38.25 to $40.57
• 50-Day Range: $38.32 to $61.99
• 52-Week Range: $24.55 to $62.49
• Volume: 283,998 shs
• Average Volume: 253,031 shs
• Market Capitalization: $529.27 million
• P/E Ratio: N/A
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: $64.00
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

LendingTree Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

LendingTree scored higher than 93% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 91st out of 935 stocks in the finance sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 4.4 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

LendingTree has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.75, and is based on 6 buy ratings, 2 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

LendingTree has been the subject of 5 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 62.50%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for LendingTree are expected to grow by 62.50% in the coming year, from $0.48 to $0.78 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of LendingTree is -14.67, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of LendingTree is -14.67, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

LendingTree has a P/B Ratio of 4.15. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 2.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Bearish

Percentage of Shares Shorted

9.32% of the float of LendingTree has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

LendingTree has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 3.6, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in LendingTree has recently increased by 20.25%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: N/A

Dividend Yield

LendingTree does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

LendingTree does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Sustainability and ESG

• Score: 2.2 / 5
• Environmental Score: -1.02

Percentage of Shares Shorted

9.32% of the float of LendingTree has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

LendingTree has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 3.6, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in LendingTree has recently increased by 20.25%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

News and Social Media

• Score: 0.9 / 5
• News Sentiment: -0.38

News Sentiment

LendingTree has a news sentiment score of -0.38. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.78 average news sentiment score of Finance companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 8 news articles for LendingTree this week, compared to 12 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

Only 5 people have searched for TREE on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -29% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

Only 2 people have added LendingTree to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -33% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 5.0 / 5
• Insider Trading: Acquiring Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, LendingTree insiders have bought 1,818.32% more of their company's stock than they have sold. Specifically, they have bought $661,072.00 in company stock and sold $34,461.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

23.40% of the stock of LendingTree is held by insiders. A high percentage of insider ownership can be a sign of company health.

Percentage Held by Institutions

68.26% of the stock of LendingTree is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

TREE Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have TREE shares performed this year?

LendingTree's stock was trading at $30.32 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, TREE shares have increased by 30.6% and is now trading at $39.61.
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How were LendingTree's earnings last quarter?

LendingTree, Inc. (NASDAQ:TREE) released its earnings results on Thursday, July, 25th. The financial services provider reported $0.54 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.73 by $0.19. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 15.1% compared to the same quarter last year.

Does LendingTree have any subsidiaries?

LendingTree subsidiaries include ValuePenguin, QuoteWizard, Student Loan Hero, Ovation Credit Services Inc., SnapCap, MagnifyMoney, DepositAccounts.com, and others.

Who are LendingTree's major shareholders?

Top institutional investors of LendingTree include Emerald Advisers LLC (2.69%), Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc. (2.59%), Emerald Mutual Fund Advisers Trust (2.05%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.90%). Insiders that own company stock include Douglas R Lebda, Scott V Totman, Steven Ozonian, Gabriel Dalporto, Jill Olmstead, Heather Novitsky, Trent Ziegler and Heather Enlow-Novitsky.
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How do I buy shares of LendingTree?

Shares of TREE stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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What other stocks do shareholders of LendingTree own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that LendingTree investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Meta Platforms (META), Netflix (NFLX), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Tesla (TSLA), PayPal (PYPL) and Broadcom (AVGO).

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 7/25/2024
• Today: 12/21/2024
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2024

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Sector: Finance
• Industry: Loan brokers
• Sub-Industry: Thrifts & Mortgage Finance
• Current Symbol: NASDAQ:TREE
• CUSIP: 89467510
• CIK: 1434621
• Web: www.lendingtree.com
• Phone: (704) 541-5351
• Fax: 704-541-5352
• Employees: 1,250
• Year Founded: 1996

Price Target and Rating

• Average Stock Price Target: $64.00
• High Stock Price Target: $78.00
• Low Stock Price Target: $38.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +61.6%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.75
• Research Coverage: 8 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year): ($2.70)
• Trailing P/E Ratio: N/A
• Forward P/E Ratio: 82.52
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: $-122,400,000.00
• Net Margins: -4.72%
• Pretax Margin: -4.32%
• Return on Equity: 0.51%
• Return on Assets: 0.08%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 3.67
• Current Ratio: 0.92
• Quick Ratio: 0.92

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $773.05 million
• Price / Sales: 0.68
• Cash Flow: $4.76 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 8.32
• Book Value: $9.55 per share
• Price / Book: 4.15

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 13,362,000
• Free Float: 10,235,000
• Market Cap: $529.27 million
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 2.03