Houlihan Lokey (HLI) Stock Price, News & Analysis

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Houlihan Lokey in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" HLI shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in HLI, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Houlihan Lokey's shares. Their HLI share price targets range from $101.00 to $142.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $123.33 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 0.7% from the stock's current price.
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Houlihan Lokey's stock was trading at $119.91 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, HLI shares have increased by 2.2% and is now trading at $122.53.
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Houlihan Lokey saw a decrease in short interest during the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,340,000 shares, a decrease of 27.6% from the February 29th total of 1,850,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 345,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.9 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 14th 2024.
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Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 1st. The financial services provider reported $1.22 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.12 by $0.10. The financial services provider had revenue of $511.30 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $493.02 million. Houlihan Lokey had a net margin of 14.90% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 18.06%. Houlihan Lokey's revenue for the quarter was up 12.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.14 earnings per share.

Houlihan Lokey announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 1st. Investors of record on Friday, March 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.55 per share on Friday, March 15th. This represents a $2.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.80%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 29th.
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Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.77%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 9 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 54.59%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, HLI will have a dividend payout ratio of 38.53% 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 Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) stock in their portfolio include Argent Mid Cap ETF (AMID), First Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Dividend ETF (DDIV), SPDR S&P Capital Markets ETF (KCE), Invesco Dorsey Wright Financial Momentum ETF (PFI) and ALPS O'Shares U.S. Small-Cap Quality Dividend ETF (OUSM).iShares U.S. Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF (IAI).

77 employees have rated Houlihan Lokey Chief Executive Officer Scott Beiser on Glassdoor.com. Scott Beiser has an approval rating of 87% among the company's employees.

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Houlihan Lokey (HLI) raised $301 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday, August 13th 2015. The company issued 13,100,000 shares at $22.00-$24.00 per share. BofA Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs served as the underwriters for the IPO and UBS Investment Bank, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (A Stifel Company), Houlihan Lokey, Sandler O'Neill + Partners and JMP Securities were co-managers.

Houlihan Lokey's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include West Coast Financial LLC (0.03%), Park Avenue Securities LLC (0.01%), Fulton Bank N.A. (0.01%), NBC Securities Inc. (0.01%), Brookstone Capital Management (0.01%) and Steph & Co. (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Christopher M Crain, Irwin Gold, J Lindsey Alley, Paul Andrew Zuber, Robert A Schriesheim, Scott Joseph Adelson and Scott L Beiser.
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