--- title: "Weekly Recap | Lightpath -4.86%, most brokers rate it buy" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/298792559.md" description: "Lightpath (LPTH) closed the week down 4.86% at $9.20, while the S&P 500 fell 0.8%, leaving it about 4.06 percentage points behind the benchmark. The move was not a straight-line sell-off. On Tuesday (Sep 8), the stock opened at $10.065 and rallied to close at $10.750; Wednesday’s session briefly touched a weekly high of $10.960 before the tone shifted. By Friday (Sep 11), it slid to a weekly low of $9.040 and settled at $9.20. With an amplitude of roughly 19." datetime: "2026-09-12T06:13:25.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/298792559.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/298792559.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/298792559.md) generator: "portal-rs" --- # Weekly Recap | Lightpath -4.86%, most brokers rate it buy ## The Week Lightpath (LPTH) closed the week down 4.86% at $9.20, while the S&P 500 fell 0.8%, leaving it about 4.06 percentage points behind the benchmark. The move was not a straight-line sell-off. On Tuesday (Sep 8), the stock opened at $10.065 and rallied to close at $10.750; Wednesday’s session briefly touched a weekly high of $10.960 before the tone shifted. By Friday (Sep 11), it slid to a weekly low of $9.040 and settled at $9.20. With an amplitude of roughly 19.08%, the week played out as a wide swing that peaked early and pulled back to the lower end of the range. ## Key Events The main story was LightPath’s fiscal Q4 2026 and full-year results, released on Friday (Sep 11). Revenue for the quarter beat estimates, helped by acquisitions, and full-year revenue came in at about $71.7m. The profit line was softer: quarterly EPS missed by $0.01, and full-year EPS was negative at $(0.38). On margins, a richer product mix lifted Q4 gross margin to 39.4%. The company filed an 8-K on Friday, followed by a 10-K annual filing summary on Saturday. In short, the week’s company news centred on earnings and annual filings, with the results showing revenue growth but a weaker bottom line. ## Analyst Ratings Five brokers cover Lightpath: four rate it buy and one rates it overweight, with no hold, underweight or sell ratings. The consensus rating is strong buy, and the consensus target sits at $15.80, about 71.74% above the current price of $9.20. The target range is $15 to $17, so disagreement is modest. Within the electronic equipment and services industry, Lightpath ranks 28th out of 68 stocks by analyst rating, against an industry average of five brokers per stock and a median of four. ## The Week Ahead With earnings now out of the way, no further company results are on the calendar next week. On the macro side, the US releases the Empire State manufacturing index on Tuesday (Sep 15), with prior at 20.6 and consensus at 14.75. Wednesday (Sep 16) is busier: retail sales, retail sales ex-autos, the NAHB housing market index and EIA weekly crude inventories are all due. For Lightpath, the key things to watch are how the market digests the full 10-K after the weekend, and whether next week’s macro data shifts overall risk appetite. ## In Short The tension this week: brokers are unanimously positive, with a strong buy consensus and a target about 71% above spot, yet the stock lagged the S&P 500 by roughly 4 points, and the latest session’s money flow showed large-lot money turning net seller (large outflows of 101.27 versus inflows of 89.45). On valuation, the stock trades around 4.08x book value with negative earnings, so there is no profit support yet. The open question is whether the market reprices the ‘revenue growth, weak profit’ profile once the full 10-K is digested, and how early macro data next week feeds into broader risk appetite. *This article is generated by LongbridgeAI from market data, for information only and not investment advice.* ### Related Stocks - [LPTH.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/LPTH.US.md) ## Related News & Research - [LightPath Technologies (LPTH) to Post Earnings on Thursday](https://longbridge.com/en/news/298092159.md) - [LightPath wins Department of War prototype deal to develop BlackDiamond glass as germanium alternative for IR imaging](https://longbridge.com/en/news/299320759.md) - [Rocket Lab or Palantir: Cathie Wood Buys $16.4M of One Stock, Sells $4M of the Other](https://longbridge.com/en/news/300746214.md) - [Google wins dismissal of Chegg, Penske Media lawsuits over AI overviews](https://longbridge.com/en/news/300697699.md) - [BUZZ-Street View: Argon revives Google's AI standing, but questions remain](https://longbridge.com/en/news/300699265.md) --- > **Disclaimer: This article is for reference only and does not constitute any investment advice.**