Lithia Motors Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:LAD)

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

Lithia Motors announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 24th. Investors of record on Friday, August 9th will be given a dividend of $0.30 per share on Friday, August 23rd. This represents a $1.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.92%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 8th. View Lithia Motors' Dividend History.

Lithia Motors Inc (NYSE:LAD) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July, 24th. The company reported $2.95 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.87 by $0.08. The business earned $3.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.19 billion. Lithia Motors had a net margin of 2.24% and a return on equity of 20.74%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 4.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $2.52 EPS. View Lithia Motors' Earnings History.

Lithia Motors is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Lithia Motors.

Lithia Motors will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, October 23rd at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

8 analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Lithia Motors' shares. Their predictions range from $110.00 to $151.00. On average, they expect Lithia Motors' stock price to reach $129.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.9%. View Analyst Price Targets for Lithia Motors.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Lithia Motors in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Lithia Motors.

Headlines about LAD stock have been trending extremely negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Lithia Motors earned a coverage optimism score of -4.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Lithia Motors.

Lithia Motors saw a decrease in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 2,920,000 shares, a decrease of 5.5% from the August 30th total of 3,090,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 232,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 12.6 days. Approximately 13.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Lithia Motors' Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Lithia Motors investors own include Ford Motor (F), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Alkaline Water (WTER), Ambarella (AMBA), LogMeIn (LOGM), Micron Technology (MU), Alaska Air Group (ALK), General Electric (GE), Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Intel (INTC).

Lithia Motors' stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Smith Graham & Co. Investment Advisors LP (0.38%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.22%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.11%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.07%), Strs Ohio (0.04%) and Brinker Capital Inc. (0.03%). Company insiders that own Lithia Motors stock include Bryan B Deboer, Chris Holzshu, John F North, Kenneth E Roberts, Louis Miramontes, Sidney B Deboer and Susan O Cain. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Lithia Motors.

LAD stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc. and Strs Ohio. Company insiders that have sold Lithia Motors company stock in the last year include Bryan B Deboer, Kenneth E Roberts, Louis Miramontes, Sidney B Deboer and Susan O Cain. View Insider Buying and Selling for Lithia Motors.

LAD stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Calamos Advisors LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, First Hawaiian Bank, World Asset Management Inc, Hexavest Inc. and Smith Graham & Co. Investment Advisors LP. Company insiders that have bought Lithia Motors stock in the last two years include Chris Holzshu and John F North. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of LAD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $130.17.

Lithia Motors has a market capitalization of $3.02 billion and generates $11.82 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $265.70 million in net income (profit) each year or $9.98 on an earnings per share basis. Lithia Motors employs 13,643 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Lithia Motors.

The official website for Lithia Motors is http://www.lithia.com/.

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]