NYSE:LAD - Lithia Motors Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Lithia Motors declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 13th. Investors of record on Friday, March 13th will be given a dividend of $0.30 per share on Friday, March 27th. This represents a $1.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.93%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 12th. View Lithia Motors' Dividend History.

Lithia Motors Inc (NYSE:LAD) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 12th. The company reported $2.95 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $2.97 by $0.02. The business had revenue of $3.30 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.22 billion. Lithia Motors had a return on equity of 20.56% and a net margin of 2.14%. The business's revenue was up 11.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $2.54 earnings per share. View Lithia Motors' Earnings History.

Lithia Motors is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 22nd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Lithia Motors.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Lithia Motors' shares. Their forecasts range from $115.00 to $185.00. On average, they expect Lithia Motors' share price to reach $150.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Lithia Motors.

9 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 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Lithia Motors.

Media stories about LAD stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Lithia Motors earned a coverage optimism score of 0.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Lithia Motors.

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Lithia Motors' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Boston Partners (2.94%), State Street Corp (2.93%), GW&K Investment Management LLC (2.37%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.38%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.32%) and Man Group plc (0.99%). Company insiders that own Lithia Motors stock include Abrams Capital Management, LP, 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 Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Franklin Resources Inc., Boston Partners, GW&K Investment Management LLC, Bank of America Corp DE, PNC Financial Services Group Inc., Redwood Investments LLC and Sei Investments Co.. Company insiders that have sold Lithia Motors company stock in the last year include Abrams Capital Management, LP, 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Lord Abbett & CO. LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Geode Capital Management LLC, Martingale Asset Management L P, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can and Public Sector Pension Investment Board. 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 $129.39.

Lithia Motors has a market capitalization of $3.01 billion and generates $12.67 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $271.50 million in net income (profit) each year or $11.76 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]