NASDAQ:LPLA - LPL Financial Stock Price, Price Target & More

LPL Financial trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "LPLA."

LPL Financial announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, April 27th. Investors of record on Friday, May 18th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share on Friday, June 1st. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.46%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 17th. View LPL Financial's Dividend History.

LPL Financial declared that its board has authorized a stock repurchase plan on Thursday, December 7th 2017, which allows the company to buyback $359,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally a sign that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

LPL Financial Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:LPLA) released its earnings results on Thursday, May, 3rd. The financial services provider reported $1.01 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.69 by $0.32. The financial services provider had revenue of $1.24 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.17 billion. LPL Financial had a return on equity of 31.76% and a net margin of 6.33%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 19.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.52 earnings per share. View LPL Financial's Earnings History.

LPL Financial is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July, 26th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for LPL Financial.

10 brokers have issued 12-month price objectives for LPL Financial's stock. Their forecasts range from $60.00 to $92.00. On average, they expect LPL Financial's stock price to reach $77.60 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for LPL Financial.

LPL Financial saw a drop in short interest in May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,177,754 shares, a drop of 41.1% from the May 15th total of 1,998,570 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 781,998 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.5 days. Currently, 1.3% of the shares of the company are sold short. View LPL Financial's Current Options Chain.

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Media headlines about LPLA stock have trended somewhat negative recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. LPL Financial earned a news sentiment score of -0.05 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news stories about the financial services provider an impact score of 48.56 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future.

LPL Financial's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (4.48%), First Pacific Advisors LLC (4.35%), Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC (1.93%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.53%), Point72 Asset Management L.P. (1.11%) and Victory Capital Management Inc. (0.90%). Company insiders that own LPL Financial stock include Dan H Arnold, George Burton White, James S Riepe, John Andrew Kalbaugh, Marco Hellman, Mark S Casady, Michelle Oroschakoff, Tracy Calder and William P Jr Morrissey. View Institutional Ownership Trends for LPL Financial.

LPLA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including HMI Capital LLC, First Pacific Advisors LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Victory Capital Management Inc., Three Peaks Capital Management LLC, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Russell Investments Group Ltd. and Zweig DiMenna Associates LLC. Company insiders that have sold LPL Financial company stock in the last year include Dan H Arnold, George Burton White, James S Riepe, John Andrew Kalbaugh, Marco Hellman, Michelle Oroschakoff, Tracy Calder and William P Jr Morrissey. View Insider Buying and Selling for LPL Financial.

LPLA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, Westfield Capital Management Co. LP, Mackay Shields LLC, Millennium Management LLC, Clearfield Capital Management LP, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Point72 Asset Management L.P. and Great Lakes Advisors LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for LPL Financial.

Shares of LPLA 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 LPLA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $68.71.

LPL Financial has a market capitalization of $6.16 billion and generates $4.28 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $238.86 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.00 on an earnings per share basis. LPL Financial employs 3,736 workers across the globe.

LPL Financial's mailing address is 75 STATE STREET, BOSTON MA, 02109. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 617-423-3644 or via email at [email protected]