Live Oak Bancshares - LOB Stock Forecast, Price & News

4 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Live Oak Bancshares in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" LOB shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in LOB, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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4 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Live Oak Bancshares' stock. Their LOB share price forecasts range from $30.00 to $55.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $39.25 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 51.1% from the stock's current price.
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Live Oak Bancshares' stock was trading at $30.20 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, LOB stock has decreased by 14.0% and is now trading at $25.98.
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Live Oak Bancshares saw a decline in short interest in the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 1,840,000 shares, a decline of 8.9% from the February 13th total of 2,020,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 265,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.9 days. Approximately 5.6% 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, April 26th 2023.
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Live Oak Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:LOB) released its earnings results on Wednesday, January, 25th. The bank reported $0.04 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.40 by $0.36. The bank earned $104.97 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $111.56 million. Live Oak Bancshares had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 22.60% and a net margin of 25.82%.

Live Oak Bancshares declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 16th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, February 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.03 per share on Tuesday, March 14th. This represents a $0.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.46%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, February 27th.
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Live Oak Bancshares (NASDAQ:LOB) pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.46%. The dividend payout ratio is 3.06%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, LOB will have a dividend payout ratio of 4.56% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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17 employees have rated Live Oak Bancshares Chief Executive Officer Chip Mahan III on Glassdoor.com. Chip Mahan III has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Chip Mahan III in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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(LOB) raised $68 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday, July 23rd 2015. The company issued 4,000,000 shares at $16.00-$18.00 per share. Sandler O�Neill & Partners, L.P acted as the underwriter for the IPO and Keefe Bruyette & Woods (A Stifle Company) and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey were co-managers.

Live Oak Bancshares trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "LOB."

Live Oak Bancshares' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. (14.17%), Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc. (4.80%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.21%), Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (1.73%), abrdn plc (1.36%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.35%). Insiders that own company stock include David G Salyers, Diane Beth Glossman, Gregory W Seward, H K Landis, James S Mahan III, John W Sutherland, Neil Lawrence Underwood, Steve Smits, Susan N Janson, Tonya Williams Bradford, William C Losch III, William Henderson Cameron and William L Williams III.
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Shares of LOB stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of LOB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $25.98.

Live Oak Bancshares (NASDAQ:LOB) has a market capitalization of $1.15 billion and generates $682.47 million in revenue each year. The bank earns $176.21 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.92 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 1,004 workers across the globe.

Live Oak Bancshares' mailing address is 1741 TIBURON DRIVE, WILMINGTON NC, 28403. The official website for the company is www.liveoakbank.com. The bank can be reached via phone at (866) 518-0286 or via fax at 910-790-5868.