Life Healthcare (South Africa) Market Value

LHC Stock   1,477  16.00  1.07%   
Life Healthcare's market value is the price at which a share of Life Healthcare trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Life Healthcare investors about its performance. Life Healthcare is trading at 1477.00 as of the 2nd of March 2025, a 1.07 percent decrease since the beginning of the trading day. The stock's lowest day price was 1462.0.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Life Healthcare and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Life Healthcare over a given investment horizon. Check out Life Healthcare Correlation, Life Healthcare Volatility and Life Healthcare Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Life Healthcare.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Life Healthcare's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Life Healthcare is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Life Healthcare's 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.

Life Healthcare 'What if' Analysis

In the world of financial modeling, what-if analysis is part of sensitivity analysis performed to test how changes in assumptions impact individual outputs in a model. When applied to Life Healthcare's stock what-if analysis refers to the analyzing how the change in your past investing horizon will affect the profitability against the current market value of Life Healthcare.
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01/31/2025
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In 31 days
03/02/2025
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If you would invest  0.00  in Life Healthcare on January 31, 2025 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Life Healthcare or generate 0.0% return on investment in Life Healthcare over 30 days. Life Healthcare is related to or competes with Frontier Transport, ABSA Bank, Nedbank, Zeder Investments, Capitec Bank, and British Amer. More

Life Healthcare Upside/Downside Indicators

Understanding different market momentum indicators often help investors to time their next move. Potential upside and downside technical ratios enable traders to measure Life Healthcare's stock current market value against overall market sentiment and can be a good tool during both bulling and bearish trends. Here we outline some of the essential indicators to assess Life Healthcare upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Life Healthcare Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Life Healthcare's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Life Healthcare's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Life Healthcare historical prices to predict the future Life Healthcare's volatility.
Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
1,4761,4771,478
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Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
1,4161,4181,625
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Naive
Forecast
LowNextHigh
1,5341,5361,537
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LowerMiddle BandUpper
1,4601,5001,540
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Life Healthcare Backtested Returns

Life Healthcare has Sharpe Ratio of -0.13, which conveys that the firm had a -0.13 % return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. Life Healthcare exposes twenty-four different technical indicators, which can help you to evaluate volatility embedded in its price movement. Please verify Life Healthcare's Mean Deviation of 1.21, risk adjusted performance of (0.09), and Standard Deviation of 1.56 to check out the risk estimate we provide. The company secures a Beta (Market Risk) of 0.23, which conveys not very significant fluctuations relative to the market. As returns on the market increase, Life Healthcare's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding Life Healthcare is expected to be smaller as well. At this point, Life Healthcare has a negative expected return of -0.19%. Please make sure to verify Life Healthcare's jensen alpha, value at risk, accumulation distribution, as well as the relationship between the treynor ratio and skewness , to decide if Life Healthcare performance from the past will be repeated at some point in the near future.

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Virtually no predictability

Life Healthcare has virtually no predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Life Healthcare time series from 31st of January 2025 to 15th of February 2025 and 15th of February 2025 to 2nd of March 2025. The more autocorrelation exist between current time interval and its lagged values, the more accurately you can make projection about the future pattern of Life Healthcare price movement. The serial correlation of 0.07 indicates that barely 7.0% of current Life Healthcare price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient0.07
Spearman Rank Test0.25
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance196.78

Life Healthcare lagged returns against current returns

Autocorrelation, which is Life Healthcare stock's lagged correlation, explains the relationship between observations of its time series of returns over different periods of time. The observations are said to be independent if autocorrelation is zero. Autocorrelation is calculated as a function of mean and variance and can have practical application in predicting Life Healthcare's stock expected returns. We can calculate the autocorrelation of Life Healthcare returns to help us make a trade decision. For example, suppose you find that Life Healthcare has exhibited high autocorrelation historically, and you observe that the stock is moving up for the past few days. In that case, you can expect the price movement to match the lagging time series.
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Life Healthcare regressed lagged prices vs. current prices

Serial correlation can be approximated by using the Durbin-Watson (DW) test. The correlation can be either positive or negative. If Life Healthcare stock is displaying a positive serial correlation, investors will expect a positive pattern to continue. However, if Life Healthcare stock is observed to have a negative serial correlation, investors will generally project negative sentiment on having a locked-in long position in Life Healthcare stock over time.
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Life Healthcare Lagged Returns

When evaluating Life Healthcare's market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of Life Healthcare stock have on its future price. Life Healthcare autocorrelation represents the degree of similarity between a given time horizon and a lagged version of the same horizon over the previous time interval. In other words, Life Healthcare autocorrelation shows the relationship between Life Healthcare stock current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in Life Healthcare.
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Other Information on Investing in Life Stock

Life Healthcare financial ratios help investors to determine whether Life Stock is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Life with respect to the benefits of owning Life Healthcare security.