Liberty Energy (LBRT) Stock Price, News & Analysis

10 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Liberty Energy in the last twelve months. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" LBRT shares.
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10 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices 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 $24.30 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.6% from the stock's current price.
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Liberty Energy's stock was trading at $18.14 at the beginning of the year. Since then, LBRT stock has increased by 23.3% and is now trading at $22.37.
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Liberty Energy saw a increase in short interest in 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 volume of 3,040,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 6.5 days. Currently, 12.4% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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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) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April, 18th. The company reported $0.48 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.54 by $0.06. The company had revenue of $1.10 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.08 billion. Liberty Energy had a net margin of 10.43% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 26.90%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 12.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.90 EPS.

Liberty Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, April 16th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.07 per share on Thursday, June 20th. This represents a $0.28 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.25%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, June 5th.
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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 10.22%. 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 updated its first quarter 2024 earnings guidance on Thursday, January, 25th. The company provided EPS 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 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 a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (1.25%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.80%), Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY (0.07%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.06%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.02%) and Park Avenue Securities LLC (0.02%). 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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