LightPath Technologies Ownership
| LPTH Stock | USD 3.00 0.05 1.69% |
Shares in Circulation | First Issued 2009-03-31 | Previous Quarter 38 M | Current Value 40 M | Avarage Shares Outstanding 20.4 M | Quarterly Volatility 9.2 M |
LightPath |
LightPath Stock Ownership Analysis
About 47.0% of the company shares are owned by institutional investors. The book value of LightPath Technologies was now reported as 0.74. The company recorded a loss per share of 0.21. LightPath Technologies had not issued any dividends in recent years. The entity had 1:8 split on the 4th of March 2003. LightPath Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes optical components and assemblies. LightPath Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida. Lightpath Tech operates under Electronic Components classification in the United States and is traded on NASDAQ Exchange. It employs 329 people. To find out more about LightPath Technologies contact Shmuel Rubin at (407) 382-4003 or learn more at https://www.lightpath.com.Besides selling stocks to institutional investors, LightPath Technologies also allocates a substantial amount of its earnings to a pull of share-based compensation to be paid out to its employees, managers, executives, and members of the board of directors. Share-Based compensation (also sometimes called Stock-Based Compensation) is a way of paying different LightPath Technologies' stakeholders with equity in the business. It is typically used as a motivation factor for employees to contribute beyond their regular compensation (salary and bonus). It is also used as a tool to align LightPath Technologies' strategic interests with those of the company's shareholders. Shares issued to employees are usually subject to a vesting period before they are earned and sold.
LightPath Technologies Quarterly Liabilities And Stockholders Equity |
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LightPath Technologies Insider Trades History
Roughly 3.0% of LightPath Technologies are currently held by insiders. Unlike LightPath Technologies' institutional investors, corporate insiders most likely have a limit on the maximum percentage of share ownership. This is done to align insiders' influence against LightPath Technologies' private investors even though both sides will benefit from rising prices or experience loss when the share price declines. The good rule to have in mind is that the maximum share ownership percentage of the corporate insiders should not surpass 25%. View all of LightPath Technologies' insider trades
LightPath Stock Institutional Investors
Have you ever been surprised when a price of an equity instrument such as LightPath Technologies is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading LightPath Technologies backward and forwards among themselves. LightPath Technologies' institutional investor refers to the entity that pools money to purchase LightPath Technologies' securities or originate loans. Institutional investors include commercial and private banks, credit unions, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, endowments, and mutual funds. Operating companies that invest excess capital in these types of assets may also be included in the term and may influence corporate governance by exercising voting rights in their investments.
| Shares | National Asset Management Inc | 2024-09-30 | 79.8 K | Murphy Pohlad Asset Management Llc | 2024-12-31 | 69.1 K | Dimensional Fund Advisors, Inc. | 2024-09-30 | 54.5 K | Northern Trust Corp | 2024-09-30 | 50.9 K | Wealth Effects Llc | 2024-12-31 | 46.5 K | Commonwealth Equity Services Inc | 2024-09-30 | 32.5 K | Ironwood Investment Counsel, Llc | 2024-09-30 | 30.8 K | Aristides Capital Llc | 2024-09-30 | 29.4 K | J.w. Cole Advisors, Inc. | 2024-12-31 | 24.6 K | Aigh Capital Management, Llc | 2024-09-30 | 3.7 M | Amh Equity Ltd | 2024-09-30 | 3 M |
LightPath Technologies Insider Trading Activities
Some recent studies suggest that insider trading raises the cost of capital for securities issuers and decreases overall economic growth. Trading by specific LightPath Technologies insiders, such as employees or executives, is commonly permitted as long as it does not rely on LightPath Technologies' material information that is not in the public domain. Local jurisdictions usually require such trading to be reported in order to monitor insider transactions. In many U.S. states, trading conducted by corporate officers, key employees, directors, or significant shareholders must be reported to the regulator or publicly disclosed, usually within a few business days of the trade. In these cases LightPath Technologies insiders are required to file a Form 4 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) when buying or selling shares of their own companies.
LightPath Technologies Outstanding Bonds
LightPath Technologies issues bonds to finance its operations. Corporate bonds make up one of the largest components of the U.S. bond market, which is considered the world's largest securities market. LightPath Technologies uses the proceeds from bond sales for a wide variety of purposes, including financing ongoing mergers and acquisitions, buying new equipment, investing in research and development, buying back their own stock, paying dividends to shareholders, and even refinancing existing debt. Most LightPath bonds can be classified according to their maturity, which is the date when LightPath Technologies has to pay back the principal to investors. Maturities can be short-term, medium-term, or long-term (more than ten years). Longer-term bonds usually offer higher interest rates but may entail additional risks.
| Dana 575 percent Corp BondUS235822AB96 | View | |
| LIGADO NETWORKS LLC Corp BondUS53225HAA86 | View | |
| HSBC Holdings PLC Corp BondUS404280DR76 | View |
LightPath Technologies Corporate Filings
| 31st of January 2025 Other Reports | ViewVerify | |
8K | 14th of January 2025 Report filed with the SEC to announce major events that shareholders should know about | ViewVerify |
13A | 13th of December 2024 An amended filing to the original Schedule 13G | ViewVerify |
F4 | 9th of December 2024 The report filed by a party regarding the acquisition or disposition of a company's common stock, as well as derivative securities such as options, warrants, and convertible securities | ViewVerify |
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Is Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of LightPath Technologies. If investors know LightPath will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about LightPath Technologies listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth 49.113 | Earnings Share (0.21) | Revenue Per Share | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.04 | Return On Assets |
The market value of LightPath Technologies is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of LightPath that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of LightPath Technologies' value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is LightPath Technologies' true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because LightPath Technologies' market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect LightPath Technologies' underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between LightPath Technologies' value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if LightPath Technologies is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, LightPath Technologies' price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.