Lamar Advertising Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:LAMR)

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

Lamar Advertising announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 22nd. Shareholders of record on Monday, September 16th will be given a dividend of $0.96 per share on Monday, September 30th. This represents a $3.84 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.64%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, September 13th. View Lamar Advertising's Dividend History.

Lamar Advertising Co (NASDAQ:LAMR) released its earnings results on Wednesday, August, 7th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.18 EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.60 by $0.42. The real estate investment trust had revenue of $448.74 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $451.85 million. Lamar Advertising had a return on equity of 32.10% and a net margin of 21.39%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 6.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.02 earnings per share. View Lamar Advertising's Earnings History.

Lamar Advertising is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 5th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Lamar Advertising.

Lamar Advertising will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, November 5th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

4 analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Lamar Advertising's shares. Their predictions range from $75.00 to $86.00. On average, they expect Lamar Advertising's share price to reach $80.67 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.5%. View Analyst Price Targets for Lamar Advertising.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Lamar Advertising in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Lamar Advertising.

News headlines about LAMR stock have been trending somewhat negative on Saturday, InfoTrie reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Lamar Advertising earned a media sentiment score of -1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Lamar Advertising.

Lamar Advertising saw a decline in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 3,030,000 shares, a decline of 5.6% from the August 30th total of 3,210,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 333,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 9.1 days. Approximately 3.6% of the company's shares are sold short. View Lamar Advertising's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Lamar Advertising investors own include Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Iron Mountain (IRM), Verizon Communications (VZ), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Compass Minerals International (CMP), Chevron (CVX), Pfizer (PFE), Walt Disney (DIS), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and AT&T (T).

Lamar Advertising's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY (0.72%), Scout Investments Inc. (0.22%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.10%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.09%), Gilman Hill Asset Management LLC (0.06%) and Beacon Financial Group (0.06%). Company insiders that own Lamar Advertising stock include Keith A Istre, Sean E Reilly, Stephen P Mumblow and Thomas V Reifenheiser. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Lamar Advertising.

LAMR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Denali Advisors LLC, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., First Citizens Bank & Trust Co., Scout Investments Inc., Gilman Hill Asset Management LLC and Beacon Financial Group. Company insiders that have sold Lamar Advertising company stock in the last year include Keith A Istre, Sean E Reilly, Stephen P Mumblow and Thomas V Reifenheiser. View Insider Buying and Selling for Lamar Advertising.

LAMR stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pacer Advisors Inc., Verity & Verity LLC, Park Avenue Securities LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC, Brookstone Capital Management, Cypress Wealth Services LLC and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Lamar Advertising.

Shares of LAMR can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of LAMR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $82.76.

Lamar Advertising has a market capitalization of $8.31 billion and generates $1.63 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $305.23 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.50 on an earnings per share basis. Lamar Advertising employs 3,600 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Lamar Advertising.

The official website for Lamar Advertising is http://www.lamar.com/.

Lamar Advertising's mailing address is 5321 CORPORATE BOULEVARD, BATON ROUGE LA, 70808. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at 225-926-1000 or via email at [email protected]