NYSE:LAD - Lithia Motors Stock Price, Price Target & More

Lithia Motors trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LAD."

Lithia Motors declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 26th. Investors of record on Friday, May 11th will be given a dividend of $0.29 per share on Friday, May 25th. This represents a $1.16 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.11%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 10th. This is a positive change from Lithia Motors's previous quarterly dividend of $0.27. View Lithia Motors' Dividend History.

Lithia Motors Inc (NYSE:LAD) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, April, 25th. The company reported $2.07 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $2.30 by $0.23. The business earned $2.66 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.73 billion. Lithia Motors had a net margin of 2.34% and a return on equity of 20.61%. Lithia Motors's revenue for the quarter was up 18.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.78 EPS. View Lithia Motors' Earnings History.

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

Lithia Motors issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Wednesday, April, 25th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $10.60 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $10.58. The company issued revenue guidance of $12.0-$12.5 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $12.30 billion.

8 equities research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Lithia Motors' stock. Their predictions range from $125.00 to $131.00. On average, they expect Lithia Motors' stock price to reach $127.6667 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Lithia Motors.

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Headlines about LAD stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Lithia Motors earned a media sentiment score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media stories about the company an impact score of 46.78 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

Lithia Motors' stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (12.88%), Neuberger Berman Group LLC (5.03%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (4.60%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (3.96%), Park West Asset Management LLC (3.84%) and Boston Partners (3.03%). Company insiders that own Lithia Motors stock include Bryan B Deboer, George Chun-Wai Liang, John F North, Kenneth E Roberts, Sidney B Deboer, Susan O Cain and Thomas R Becker. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Lithia Motors.

LAD stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Millennium Management LLC, Silvercrest Asset Management Group LLC, Mesirow Financial Investment Management Equity Management, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Neuberger Berman Group LLC, PNC Financial Services Group Inc., New Amsterdam Partners LLC NY and Fiera Capital Corp. Company insiders that have sold Lithia Motors company stock in the last year include Bryan B Deboer, George Chun-Wai Liang, John F North, Kenneth E Roberts, Sidney B Deboer, Susan O Cain and Thomas R Becker. View Insider Buying and Selling for Lithia Motors.

LAD stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, BlackRock Inc., Park West Asset Management LLC, Boston Partners, Cardinal Capital Management LLC CT, Victory Capital Management Inc., Tyvor Capital LLC and Westwood Holdings Group Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Lithia Motors.

Shares of LAD 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 LAD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $104.70.

Lithia Motors has a market capitalization of $2.58 billion and generates $10.09 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $245.21 million in net income (profit) each year or $8.39 on an earnings per share basis. Lithia Motors employs 12,899 workers across the globe.

Lithia Motors' mailing address is 150 NORTH BARTLETT STREET, MEDFORD OR, 97501. The company can be reached via phone at 541-776-6401 or via email at [email protected]