Louisiana-Pacific (LPX) Stock Price, News & Analysis

6 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Louisiana-Pacific in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" LPX shares.
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6 brokers have issued 1 year price targets for Louisiana-Pacific's shares. Their LPX share price targets range from $60.00 to $82.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $73.71 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 2.4% from the stock's current price.
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Louisiana-Pacific's stock was trading at $70.83 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, LPX stock has increased by 1.7% and is now trading at $72.02.
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Louisiana-Pacific saw a drop in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,190,000 shares, a drop of 46.9% from the March 15th total of 2,240,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 884,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.3 days. Currently, 1.7% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 8th 2024.
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Louisiana-Pacific will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, May 8th at 11:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Louisiana-Pacific Co. (NYSE:LPX) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February, 14th. The building manufacturing company reported $0.71 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.54 by $0.17. The building manufacturing company had revenue of $658 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $618.60 million. Louisiana-Pacific had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 15.65% and a net margin of 6.90%. Louisiana-Pacific's revenue was down 6.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.61 EPS.

Louisiana-Pacific announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 9th. Investors of record on Friday, February 23rd will be paid a dividend of $0.26 per share on Friday, March 8th. This represents a $1.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.44%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 22nd. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.24.
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Louisiana-Pacific (NYSE:LPX) pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.42%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 6 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 42.45%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, LPX will have a dividend payout ratio of 24.53% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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24 employees have rated Louisiana-Pacific Chief Executive Officer Brad Southern on Glassdoor.com. Brad Southern has an approval rating of 65% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Louisiana-Pacific investors own include Intel (INTC), Pfizer (PFE), AT&T (T), Energy Transfer (ET), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Ford Motor (F), General Electric (GE), Boeing (BA), D.R. Horton (DHI) and Walt Disney (DIS).

Louisiana-Pacific's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.22%), Strong Tower Advisory Services (0.07%), Baker Ellis Asset Management LLC (0.05%), State of Michigan Retirement System (0.02%), First Hawaiian Bank (0.01%) and Moody National Bank Trust Division (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Alan Haughie, Derek Nelson Doyle, Lizanne C Gottung, Michael W Blosser, Stephen E Macadam and William Bradley Southern.
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Shares of LPX 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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