Kepler Capital Sticks to Their Buy Rating for Lloyds Banking (LLOY)

Kepler Capital analyst Nicolas Payen maintained a Buy rating on Lloyds Banking on April 2 and set a price target of p120.00. The company’s shares closed last Thursday at p97.94.

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According to TipRanks, Payen is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 13.1% and a 63.20% success rate. Payen covers the Financial sector, focusing on stocks such as Deutsche Bank AG, Lloyds Banking, and NatWest Group.

In addition to Kepler Capital , Lloyds Banking also received a Buy from TipRanks – DeepSeek’s DeepSeek Financial GB in a report issued today. However, on the same day, TipRanks – Anthropic reiterated a Hold rating on Lloyds Banking (LSE: LLOY).

Based on Lloyds Banking’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending December 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of p4.77 billion and a net profit of p1.4 billion. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of p24.14 billion and had a net profit of p644 million

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 110 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of LLOY in relation to earlier this year.