Liberty Energy (LBRT) Stock Price, News & Analysis

8 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Liberty Energy in the last twelve months. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" LBRT shares.
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8 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Liberty Energy's shares. Their LBRT share price targets range from $20.00 to $28.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $23.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.1% from the stock's current price.
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Liberty Energy's stock was trading at $18.14 at the start of the year. Since then, LBRT shares have increased by 21.8% and is now trading at $22.10.
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Liberty Energy saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 19,900,000 shares, an increase of 18.8% from the March 15th total of 16,750,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 3,040,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 6.5 days. Approximately 12.4% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July 17th 2024.
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Liberty Energy Inc. (NYSE:LBRT) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, April, 17th. The company reported $0.48 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.54 by $0.06. The company earned $1.10 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.08 billion. Liberty Energy had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 32.28% and a net margin of 11.72%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 12.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.90 earnings per share.

Liberty Energy declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, April 16th. Investors of record on Thursday, June 6th will be given a dividend of $0.07 per share on Thursday, June 20th. This represents a $0.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.27%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, June 6th.
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Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT) pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.30%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 8.86%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, LBRT will have a dividend payout ratio of 9.18% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P SmallCap Energy ETF (PSCE), SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Equipment & Services ETF (XES), Strategas Macro Thematic Opportunities ETF (SAMT), Invesco Oil & Gas Services ETF (PXJ), iShares U.S. Oil Equipment & Services ETF (IEZ), VanEck Oil Services ETF (OIH), Alpha Architect U.S. Quantitative Value ETF (QVAL) and Horizon Kinetics Energy and Remediation ETF (NVIR).

Liberty Energy issued an update on its first quarter 2024 earnings guidance on Thursday, January, 25th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.1 billion-$1.1 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.1 billion.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Liberty Energy investors own include Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Allena Pharmaceuticals (ALNA), Halliburton (HAL), Energy Transfer (ET), Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure (SOI), Carnival Co. & (CCL), CGG (CGG), Callon Petroleum (CPE), Ensco Rowan (ESV) and Exelixis (EXEL).

Liberty Energy (LBRT) raised $160 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, January 12th 2018. The company issued 10,700,000 shares at $14.00-$16.00 per share. Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Sachs, Wells Fargo Securities, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and Evercore ISI served as the underwriters for the IPO and Simmons & Company International (Energy Specialists of Piper Jaffray), Tudor, Pickering, Holt, Houlihan Lokey, Intrepid Partners, Petrie Partners Securities and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey were co-managers.

Liberty Energy's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.80%), Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY (0.07%), Park Avenue Securities LLC (0.02%) and Diversified Trust Co (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Christopher A Wright, Energy Part Riverstone/Carlyle, Ken Babcock, Limited/Nv Schlumberger, Michael Stock, R Sean Elliott, Ron Gusek, Ryan T Gosney and William F Kimble.
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Shares of LBRT stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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