Lazard meets ChartMill’s Best Dividend screen with a 7.25% yield, but a high payout ratio and debt risk require caution for income investors.
Why LAZ Stock surged +2.78% Today — RQD Quant Desk Flash
Lazard Inc. (LAZ) carries a Roarable Rating of C (Hold) with 65/100 RQD Confidence. The underlying business is intact, so current owners don’t need to panic-sell—but mixed big-money flow or rich pricing means new buyers can afford to wait for either a pullback or a B-or-higher upgrade.
Why LAZ Stock surged +2.78% Today — RQD Quant Desk Flash
Lazard Inc. (LAZ) surged +2.78% to $39.54 as options desks priced 56% call premium vs. 44% put protection around the $39 max-pain magnet. Solid 41% profit margin (24% return on capital), mixed timing at 16x P/E—hold if owned, no rush to chase.
- ▸Technical Tape: Trading at 22% of its 52-week range ($34.13 – $58.75) with RSI-14 at 54.4 (NEUTRAL RANGE).
- ▸Whale Options Positioning: $2.5M in bullish call flow vs. $2.0M in put flow (Put/Call 0.79x, implied earnings swing ±6.9%).
- ▸Fundamental Anchor: Roarable C (Hold) backed by 44% gross margin and $487.4M annual free cash flow.
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Over the past six months, Lazard’s shares (currently trading at $38.45) have posted a disappointing 19% loss, well below the S&P 500’s 8.2% gain. This was partly driven by its softer quarterly results and may have invest
Small-cap stocks can be incredibly lucrative investments because their lack of analyst coverage leads to frequent mispricings. However, these businesses (and their stock prices) often stay small because their subscale op
Morgan Stanley analyst Ryan Kenny maintains Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) with a Underweight and lowers the price target from $41 to $40.
Financial advisory firm Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) fell short of the market’s revenue expectations in Q3 2026, but sales rose 11% year on year to $804.6 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.36 per share was 13% below analysts’ cons
Lazard stock barely moved after its Q3 2026 report, slipping just 0.2% to about US$37. That muted reaction masks a more detailed story in the earnings. Advisory and asset management revenue combined reached about US$814.
Lazard has seen a mixed share price path in recent years, and that raises a simple question for anyone looking at the stock today. Is the current valuation supported by what the business is actually earning? Over the pas
Lazard reported third quarter 2026 net income of US$29.16 million, down from US$71.25 million a year earlier, with diluted EPS from continuing operations of US$0.26 and an affirmed quarterly dividend of US$0.50 per share
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vs. +1.5% actual YoY revenue growth (assuming 9.25% cost of equity & 16.5x terminal multiple).
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Why LAZ Stock surged +2.78% Today — RQD Quant Desk Flash. Solid 41% profit margin (24% return on capital), mixed timing at 16x P/E—hold if owned, no rush to chase.