NASDAQ:LPLA - LPL Financial Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

LPL Financial announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 30th. Investors of record on Wednesday, March 18th will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share on Tuesday, March 31st. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.06%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, March 17th. View LPL Financial's Dividend History.

LPL Financial Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:LPLA) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 30th. The financial services provider reported $1.68 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.59 by $0.09. The financial services provider had revenue of $1.45 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.44 billion. The company's revenue was up 9.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $1.36 earnings per share. View LPL Financial's Earnings History.

LPL Financial is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 7th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for LPL Financial.

8 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for LPL Financial's shares. Their forecasts range from $84.13 to $121.00. On average, they anticipate LPL Financial's stock price to reach $102.30 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 8.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for LPL Financial.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for LPL Financial in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for LPL Financial.

News coverage about LPLA stock has been trending somewhat positive on Monday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. LPL Financial earned a news impact score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for LPL Financial.

LPL Financial saw a drop in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,190,000 shares, a drop of 14.4% from the January 15th total of 1,390,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 561,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.1 days. Approximately 1.5% of the company's shares are short sold. View LPL Financial's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to LPL Financial include Goldman Sachs Group (GS), TD Ameritrade (AMTD), E*TRADE Financial (ETFC), Evercore (EVR), BGC Partners (BGCP), Piper Jaffray Companies (PJC), INTL Fcstone (INTL), Cowen (COWN), Greenhill & Co., Inc. (GHL), Global Brokerage (GLBR), Charles Schwab (SCHW), FBR & Co (FBRC), Lazard (LAZ), Morgan Stanley (MS) and Oppenheimer (OPY).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other LPL Financial investors own include Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), AT&T (T), Cornerstone Total Return Fund (CRF), CBL & Associates Properties (CBL), SandRidge Permian Trust (PER), Ford Motor (F), SunCoke Energy Partners (SXCP), Cornerstone Strategic Value Fund (CLM), Martin Midstream Partners (MMLP) and NGL Energy Partners (NGL).

LPL Financial's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Samlyn Capital LLC (4.26%), FMR LLC (2.97%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.24%), Fairview Capital Investment Management LLC (1.77%), Clarkston Capital Partners LLC (1.70%) and Westfield Capital Management Co. LP (1.55%). Company insiders that own LPL Financial stock include Dan H Arnold, George Burton White, James S Riepe, John Andrew Kalbaugh, Marco Hellman, Matthew J Audette, Michelle Oroschakoff, Sallie R Larsen, Thomas Gooley and Tracy Calder. View Institutional Ownership Trends for LPL Financial.

LPLA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Prudential Financial Inc., Lord Abbett & CO. LLC, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., FMR LLC, ArrowMark Colorado Holdings LLC, WBI Investments Inc., Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold LPL Financial company stock in the last year include Dan H Arnold, George Burton White, John Andrew Kalbaugh, Matthew J Audette, Michelle Oroschakoff, Thomas Gooley and Tracy Calder. View Insider Buying and Selling for LPL Financial.

LPLA stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Samlyn Capital LLC, Westfield Capital Management Co. LP, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Victory Capital Management Inc., Hennessy Advisors Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Strycker View Capital LLC and Artemis Investment Management LLP. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of LPLA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $94.66.