LEO Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Dreyfus Strategic Munis | NYSE:LEO)

The fund’s investment objective is to maximize current income exempt from federal income tax to the extent consistent with the preservation of capital. Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in municipal obligations. Generally, the fund invests at least 50% of its net assets in municipal bonds considered investment grade or the unrated equivalent as determined by Dreyfus in the case of bonds, and in the two highest-rating categories or the unrated equivalent as determined by Dreyfus in the case of short-term obligations having or deemed to have maturities of less than one year. To this end, portfolio construction focuses on income opportunities, through analysis of each bond’s structure, including paying close attention to each bond’s yield, maturity and early redemption features. When making new investments, the fund focuses on identifying undervalued sectors and securities, and minimizes reliance on interest rate forecasting. The fund selects municipal bonds based on fundamental credit analysis to estimate the relative value and attractiveness of various sectors and securities and to exploit pricing inefficiencies in the municipal bond market. The fund actively trade among various sectors, such as escrowed, general obligation and revenue, based on their apparent relative values. Leverage, which is utilized in the portfolio in order to generate a higher level of current income exempt from regular federal income taxes, does amplify the fund’s exposure to interest rate movements, and, potentially, gains or losses, especially those among the longest maturities.

Dreyfus Strategic Munis trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol LEO.

As of April 24, 2024, LEO stock price climbed to $5.91 with 194,012 million shares trading.

LEO has a beta of 0.62, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. LEO has a correlation of 0.31 to the broad based SPY ETF.

LEO has a market cap of $368.14 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, LEO stock traded as high as $9.50 and as low as $4.98.

LEO has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -1.9%, while the SPY ETF gained +24.2%. In the last 3 month period, LEO fell short of the market, returning +2.2%, while SPY returned +4.6%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks LEO has outperformed the stock market by returning -0.2%, while SPY returned -2.7%.

LEO support price is $5.84 and resistance is $5.93 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that LEO stock will trade within this expected range on the day.