Lamar Advertising - LAMR Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Lamar Advertising 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" LAMR shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in LAMR, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 Wall Street research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Lamar Advertising's shares. Their LAMR share price forecasts range from $108.00 to $131.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $116.33 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 9.6% from the stock's current price.
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Lamar Advertising's stock was trading at $94.40 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, LAMR stock has increased by 12.5% and is now trading at $106.18.
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Lamar Advertising saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,860,000 shares, an increase of 11.3% from the December 31st total of 2,570,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 551,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.2 days. Currently, 3.3% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 24th 2023.
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Lamar Advertising will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, February 24th at 9:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 785-424-1634.

Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ:LAMR) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, August, 3rd. The real estate investment trust reported $1.32 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.27 by $0.05. Lamar Advertising had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 40.03% and a net margin of 24.90%. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $1.75 EPS.

Lamar Advertising announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, December 8th. Stockholders of record on Monday, December 19th will be paid a dividend of $1.20 per share on Friday, December 30th. This represents a $4.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.52%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, December 16th.
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Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ:LAMR) pays an annual dividend of $4.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.64%. LAMR has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 98.36%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, LAMR will have a dividend payout ratio of 64.34% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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86 employees have rated Lamar Advertising Chief Executive Officer Sean Reilly on Glassdoor.com. Sean Reilly has an approval rating of 87% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Lamar Advertising investors own include Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Verizon Communications (VZ), Chevron (CVX), AT&T (T), Iron Mountain (IRM), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Pfizer (PFE), Duke Energy (DUK) and International Business Machines (IBM).

Lamar Advertising trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "LAMR."

Lamar Advertising's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include DAVENPORT & Co LLC (1.81%), Hamlin Capital Management LLC (1.35%), Boston Trust Walden Corp (0.36%), Ceredex Value Advisors LLC (0.20%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.16%) and Strs Ohio (0.11%). Insiders that own company stock include Anna Reilly, Jay Lecoryelle Johnson, John E Koerner III, Stephen P Mumblow and Thomas V Reifenheiser.
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One share of LAMR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $106.18.

Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ:LAMR) has a market capitalization of $10.80 billion and generates $1.79 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $388.09 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.88 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 3,350 workers across the globe.

Lamar Advertising's mailing address is 5321 CORPORATE BOULEVARD, BATON ROUGE LA, 70808. The official website for the company is www.lamar.com. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at (888) 308-5060, via email at twall@lamar.com, or via fax at 225-926-1005.