Lockheed Martin Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:LMT)

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Lockheed Martin in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 10 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" LMT shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in LMT, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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15 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Lockheed Martin's shares. Their LMT share price targets range from $332.00 to $550.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $484.07 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 8.5% from the stock's current price.
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Lockheed Martin's stock was trading at $486.49 at the beginning of the year. Since then, LMT shares have decreased by 8.3% and is now trading at $446.20.
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Lockheed Martin saw a increase in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,090,000 shares, an increase of 10.0% from the October 15th total of 1,900,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,280,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.6 days. Currently, 0.8% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 23rd 2024.
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Lockheed Martin Co. (NYSE:LMT) announced its earnings results on Tuesday, October, 17th. The aerospace company reported $6.77 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $6.67 by $0.10. The aerospace company earned $16.88 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $16.73 billion. Lockheed Martin had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 75.46% and a net margin of 10.29%. The company's revenue was up 1.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $6.87 earnings per share.
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Lockheed Martin declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, October 6th. Shareholders of record on Friday, December 1st will be paid a dividend of $3.15 per share on Friday, December 29th. This represents a $12.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.82%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 30th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $3.00.
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Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) pays an annual dividend of $12.60 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.80%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 21 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 46.04%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, LMT will have a dividend payout ratio of 46.93% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) stock in their portfolio include First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF (MISL), VictoryShares Protect America ETF (SHLD), iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF (ITA), Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF (PPA), Constrained Capital ESG Orphans ETF (ORFN), BrandywineGLOBALDynamic US Large Cap Value ETF (DVAL), SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF (XAR) and SPDR Kensho Final Frontiers ETF (ROKT).

Lockheed Martin updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Tuesday, October, 17th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $27.00-$27.20 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $27.15. The company issued revenue guidance of $66.25 billion-$66.75 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $66.66 billion.

147 employees have rated Lockheed Martin Chief Executive Officer James D. Taiclet on Glassdoor.com. James D. Taiclet has an approval rating of 92% among the company's employees. This puts James D. Taiclet in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Lockheed Martin's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (2.29%), FMR LLC (2.15%), Morgan Stanley (2.04%), Wellington Management Group LLP (1.27%), Northern Trust Corp (0.96%) and Ameriprise Financial Inc. (0.89%). Insiders that own company stock include Brian P Colan, Gregory M Ulmer, John Donovan, John Frank A St, John Frank A St, Kenneth R Possenriede, Maryanne Lavan, Richard F Ambrose, Richard F Ambrose, Stephanie C Hill and Timothy S Cahill.
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