Liberty Energy - LBRT Stock Forecast, Price & News

7 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Liberty Energy in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" LBRT shares.
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7 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Liberty Energy's stock. Their LBRT share price forecasts range from $16.00 to $25.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $20.41 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 65.0% from the stock's current price.
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Liberty Energy's stock was trading at $16.01 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, LBRT shares have decreased by 22.7% and is now trading at $12.37.
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Liberty Energy saw a increase in short interest during the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 6,680,000 shares, an increase of 19.9% from the February 13th total of 5,570,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,790,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.4 days. Currently, 4.2% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 19th 2023.
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Liberty Energy Inc. (NYSE:LBRT) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 26th. The company reported ($0.22) earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.12) by $0.10. The firm earned $653.73 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $615.36 million. Liberty Energy had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 29.23% and a net margin of 9.63%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned ($0.39) earnings per share.

Liberty Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, January 24th. Shareholders of record on Monday, March 6th will be given a dividend of $0.05 per share on Monday, March 20th. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.62%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 3rd.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT) stock in their portfolio include SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Equipment & Services ETF (XES), Invesco Dynamic Oil & Gas Services ETF (PXJ), VanEck Oil Services ETF (OIH), iShares U.S. Oil Equipment & Services ETF (IEZ), Direxion Daily Oil Services Bull 2X Shares (ONG), First Trust Small Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund (FYC), Invesco DWA SmallCap Momentum ETF (DWAS) and Small Cap US Equity Select ETF (RNSC).

Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT) pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.55%. The dividend payout ratio is 9.43%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, LBRT will have a dividend payout ratio of 5.28% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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(LBRT) raised $160 million in an IPO on Friday, January 12th 2018. The company issued 10,700,000 shares at $14.00-$16.00 per share. Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Sachs, Wells Fargo Securities, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and Evercore ISI acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Simmons & Company International (Energy Specialists of Piper Jaffray), Tudor, Pickering, Holt, Houlihan Lokey, Intrepid Partners, Petrie Partners Securities and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey were co-managers.

Liberty Energy trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LBRT."

Liberty Energy's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. (5.85%), Van ECK Associates Corp (3.80%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.80%), Millennium Management LLC (1.65%), JFG Wealth Management LLC (1.58%) and Macquarie Group Ltd. (1.63%). Insiders that own company stock include Christopher A Wright, Energy Part Riverstone/Carlyle, Limited/Nv Schlumberger, Michael Stock, R Sean Elliott, Ron Gusek and Ryan T Gosney.
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Shares of LBRT stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of LBRT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $12.37.

Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT) has a market capitalization of $2.18 billion and generates $4.15 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $399.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.12 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 4,580 workers across the globe.

Liberty Energy's mailing address is 950 17TH STREET SUITE 2400, DENVER CO, 80202. The official website for the company is www.libertyfrac.com. The company can be reached via phone at (303) 515-2800, via email at ir@libertyfrac.com, or via fax at 303-515-2880.