LegalZoom.com, Inc. (LZ)Industrials | Specialty Business Services | Mountain View, United States | NasdaqGS
6.20 USD
+0.21
(3.506%)
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(Oct. 15, 2026, 4 p.m.
EDT)
|
Hot Take ↕ | Oct. 10, 2026, 3:02 a.m. EDT
LegalZoom presents a classic value trap scenario where the math looks attractive but the reality is deteriorating. The stock trades at a forward P/E of roughly 7.4x, which appears cheap compared to its historical multiples, yet this 'value' is priced in a brutal multi-year decline where the share count has been halved since 2021. Despite a recent 48% price rally in 2025, the company is still down nearly 60% from its peak, and the most recent earnings report confirmed the trap: revenue grew, but EPS missed, leaving the stock vulnerable to another correction. The balance sheet is fragile, with a current ratio of just 0.67 and a debt-to-equity ratio exceeding 11%, signaling significant leverage risk in a low-margin business. While premium subscription packages are driving top-line growth, the market has clearly lost faith in the quality of earnings, evidenced by the massive accumulation of long-dated put options betting on a drop to $3.00 by 2028. There is no income component to offset the capital loss, as the company has suspended dividends. For investors, the low price is not a margin of safety; it is a warning sign that the business fundamentals—specifically profitability and cash conversion relative to its size—are not supporting a higher valuation. The stock is currently stuck in a neutral zone, waiting for a fundamental turnaround that hasn't happened yet. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| AutoETS ✓ | 0.085342 |
| AutoARIMA | 0.085343 |
| AutoTheta | 0.091804 |
| MSTL | 0.118881 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoETS
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 42% |
| H-stat | 0.62 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.967 |
| Excess Kurtosis | -0.18 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Industrials |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 11.903 |
| Revenue per Share | 4.473 |
| Market Cap | 1,061,841,856 |
| Trailing P/E | 68.89 |
| Forward P/E | 7.70 |
| Beta | 1.21 |
| Profit Margins | 2.13% |
| Website | https://www.legalzoom.com |
As of Oct. 10, 2026, 3:02 a.m. EDT: Options activity reveals a distinct divergence between near-term and long-term sentiment. In the near term (through late 2026), call open interest is heavily skewed out-of-the-money (OTM) at strikes like $8.00 and $10.00, suggesting speculative bets on a rebound to $8+, while put volume remains thin. However, looking further ahead to early 2028, the dynamic flips dramatically: massive put open interest accumulates at deep OTM strikes ($3.00, $5.00), dwarfing call interest. This structure indicates that while traders are currently pricing in a potential recovery, the dominant long-dated positioning is defensive, betting on a continued decline toward the $3–$5 range.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | -0.39372468 |
| Address1 | 954 Villa Street |
| All Time High | 40.94 |
| All Time Low | 5.22 |
| Ask | 7.84 |
| Ask Size | 2 |
| Audit Risk | 3 |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 2,555,390 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 2,760,981 |
| Average Volume | 2,760,981 |
| Average Volume10Days | 2,555,390 |
| Beta | 1.205 |
| Bid | 4.52 |
| Bid Size | 2 |
| Board Risk | 8 |
| Book Value | 0.759 |
| City | Mountain View |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,767,139,200 |
| Compensation Risk | 9 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 6.2 |
| Current Ratio | 0.667 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,790,726,400 |
| Day High | 6.32 |
| Day Low | 6.08 |
| Debt To Equity | 11.903 |
| Display Name | LegalZoom.com |
| Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp End | 1,785,961,800 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp Start | 1,785,961,800 |
| Earnings Timestamp | 1,785,960,000 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,793,822,400 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,793,822,400 |
| Ebitda | 44,483,000 |
| Ebitda Margins | 0.05613 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | 20.452 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 1.148 |
| Enterprise Value | 909,750,848 |
| Eps Current Year | 0.71114 |
| Eps Forward | 0.80569 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | 0.09 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Exchange | NMS |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 15 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fifty Day Average | 5.9243 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | 0.27569962 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | 0.04653708 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | -39.372467 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 12.4 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -6.2 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.5 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 5.22 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 0.98 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 0.18773948 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 5.22 - 12.4 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 1,625,059,800,000 |
| Float Shares | 116,994,418 |
| Forward Eps | 0.80569 |
| Forward P E | 7.695267 |
| Free Cashflow | 124,770,128 |
| Full Exchange Name | NasdaqGS |
| Full Time Employees | 1,196 |
| Fullday Change | 0.21000004 |
| Fullday Change Percent | 3.5058439 |
| Fullday Price | 6.2 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Governance Epoch Date | 1,790,812,800 |
| Gross Margins | 0.66700995 |
| Gross Profits | 528,604,992 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.0515 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.97414 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 171,264,812 |
| Industry | Specialty Business Services |
| Industry Disp | Specialty Business Services |
| Industry Key | specialty-business-services |
| Ipo Expected Date | 2,021-06-30 |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 0 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,767,139,200 |
| Long Business Summary | LegalZoom.com, Inc. together with its subsidiaries, operates an online platform that supports the legal, compliance, and business management needs of small businesses and consumers in the United States. The company's platform offers business formation products, such as limited liability company, incorporation of C and S corporations, nonprofit formations, doing-business-as, corporate changes and filings, business licenses, legal forms, and beneficial ownership information reports; and intellectual property products consisting of trademark and patent applications, and copyright registrations. It also provides consumer, estate planning, and other services comprising last will and testament, living will, living trust, power of attorney, and legal forms. In addition, the company offers subscriptions services, including registered agent, compliance, small business attorney advice through our legal plans, compliance concierge, compliance and legal concierge, reinstatement concierge and compliance concierge, business concierge, business and legal concierge, consumer attorney advice through legal plans, business licenses, virtual mail and check deposit services, estate planning bundle, bookkeeping, e-signature, and trademark monitoring. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. |
| Long Name | LegalZoom.com, Inc. |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 1,061,841,856 |
| Market State | PRE |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_11677383 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,782,777,600 |
| Net Income To Common | 16,853,000 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,798,675,200 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 993,335,909 |
| Number Of Analyst Opinions | 5 |
| Open | 6.09 |
| Operating Cashflow | 175,184,000 |
| Operating Margins | 0.05372 |
| Overall Risk | 8 |
| Payout Ratio | 0.0 |
| Phone | 323 962 8600 |
| Previous Close | 5.99 |
| Price Eps Current Year | 8.718396 |
| Price Hint | 2 |
| Price To Book | 8.168643 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 1.3398737 |
| Profit Margins | 0.021270001 |
| Quick Ratio | 0.617 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | none |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | 0.21 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | 3.50584 |
| Regular Market Day High | 6.32 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 6.08 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 6.08 - 6.32 |
| Regular Market Open | 6.09 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 5.99 |
| Regular Market Price | 6.2 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,792,094,401 |
| Regular Market Volume | 4,276,556 |
| Return On Assets | 0.042340003 |
| Return On Equity | 0.104940005 |
| Revenue Growth | 0.066 |
| Revenue Per Share | 4.473 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.16207206 |
| Sector | Industrials |
| Sector Disp | Industrials |
| Sector Key | industrials |
| Share Holder Rights Risk | 8 |
| Shares Outstanding | 171,264,812 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.0723 |
| Shares Short | 12,380,093 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,788,134,400 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 12,578,661 |
| Short Name | LegalZoom.com, Inc. |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.1067 |
| Short Ratio | 4.53 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | CA |
| Symbol | LZ |
| Target High Price | 9.0 |
| Target Low Price | 6.0 |
| Target Mean Price | 7.6 |
| Target Median Price | 7.0 |
| Total Cash | 167,227,008 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 0.976 |
| Total Debt | 15,136,000 |
| Total Revenue | 792,494,016 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | 0.09 |
| Trailing P E | 68.888885 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 6.75095 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | -0.55095005 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | -0.08161075 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 4,276,556 |
| Website | https://www.legalzoom.com |
| Zip | 94,041 |