NASDAQ:LAMR - Lamar Advertising Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Lamar Advertising announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, May 17th. Stockholders of record on Friday, June 15th will be given a dividend of $0.91 per share on Friday, June 29th. This represents a $3.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.79%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, June 14th. View Lamar Advertising's Dividend History.

Lamar Advertising Co (NASDAQ:LAMR) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, August, 8th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.02 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.96 by $0.06. The real estate investment trust earned $419.80 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $416.75 million. Lamar Advertising had a return on equity of 27.75% and a net margin of 18.93%. The firm's revenue was up 5.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.94 EPS. View Lamar Advertising's Earnings History.

Lamar Advertising is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, November, 5th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Lamar Advertising.

Lamar Advertising updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Wednesday, August, 8th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.94-$3.04 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $3.02.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Lamar Advertising's shares. Their predictions range from $69.00 to $77.00. On average, they anticipate Lamar Advertising's stock price to reach $72.75 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.4%. 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 and 3 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Lamar Advertising.

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Press coverage about LAMR stock has trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment reports. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by analyzing more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Lamar Advertising earned a daily sentiment score of 0.07 on Accern's scale. They also gave headlines about the real estate investment trust an impact score of 45.74 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View Recent Headlines for Lamar Advertising.

Lamar Advertising's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Janus Henderson Group PLC (8.41%), BlackRock Inc. (8.11%), Schroder Investment Management Group (3.58%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (3.11%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.34%) and Daiwa Securities Group Inc. (2.02%). Company insiders that own Lamar Advertising stock include Anna Reilly, John Maxwell Hamilton, Keith A Istre and Stephen P Mumblow. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Lamar Advertising.

LAMR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Point72 Asset Management L.P., PNC Financial Services Group Inc., Millennium Management LLC, Morgan Stanley, Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Pzena Investment Management LLC, Wells Fargo & Company MN and Daiwa Securities Group Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Lamar Advertising company stock in the last year include Keith A Istre and Stephen P Mumblow. View Insider Buying and Selling for Lamar Advertising.

LAMR stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Schroder Investment Management Group, FMR LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Janus Henderson Group PLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, BlackRock Inc. and Voya Investment Management 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of LAMR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $76.07.

Lamar Advertising has a market capitalization of $7.17 billion and generates $1.54 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $317.67 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.05 on an earnings per share basis. Lamar Advertising employs 3,400 workers across the globe.

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]