NYSE:LPILaredo Petroleum Stock Price, Forecast & News

Laredo Petroleum's stock was trading at $11.4020 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, LPI stock has increased by 68.8% and is now trading at $19.25. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Laredo Petroleum in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Laredo Petroleum.

Laredo Petroleum is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July 29th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Laredo Petroleum.

Laredo Petroleum Inc (NYSE:LPI) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May, 6th. The oil and gas producer reported $1.80 EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.00 by $0.20. The oil and gas producer earned $204.99 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $184.46 million. Laredo Petroleum had a negative net margin of 11.74% and a positive return on equity of 15.20%. View Laredo Petroleum's earnings history.

Laredo Petroleum's stock reverse split on Monday, June 1st 2020. The 1-20 reverse split was announced on Thursday, May 14th 2020. The number of shares owned by shareholders was adjusted after the closing bell on Friday, May 29th 2020. An investor that had 100 shares of Laredo Petroleum stock prior to the reverse split would have 5 shares after the split.

10 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Laredo Petroleum's stock. Their forecasts range from $14.00 to $112.00. On average, they expect Laredo Petroleum's stock price to reach $57.83 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 200.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Laredo Petroleum.

News coverage about LPI stock has been trending very positive this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Laredo Petroleum earned a news sentiment score of 3.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the oil and gas producer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View the latest news aboutLaredo Petroleum.

Laredo Petroleum saw a increase in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 20,960,000 shares, an increase of 10.1% from the April 30th total of 19,030,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 7,180,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.9 days. Currently, 11.6% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Laredo Petroleum's Current Options Chain.

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Laredo Petroleum trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LPI."

Laredo Petroleum's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (12.18%), State Street Corp (5.79%), Morgan Stanley (4.39%), Morgan Stanley (4.39%), Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo & Co. LLC (1.80%) and Luminus Management LLC (1.58%). Company insiders that own Laredo Petroleum stock include Peter Kagan, Pincus Private Equity Warburg and Warburg Pincus Llc. View institutional ownership trends for Laredo Petroleum.

LPI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC, BlackRock Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA, CoreCommodity Management LLC, Morgan Stanley, and Morgan Stanley. View insider buying and selling activity for Laredo Petroleum.

LPI stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State Street Corp, American International Group Inc., Invesco Ltd., Two Sigma Investments LP, Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo & Co. LLC, UBS Group AG, First Trust Advisors LP, and Geode Capital Management LLC. View insider buying and selling activity for Laredo Petroleum.

Shares of LPI 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 LPI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $19.25.

Laredo Petroleum has a market capitalization of $4.61 billion and generates $837.28 million in revenue each year. The oil and gas producer earns $-342,460,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.74 on an earnings per share basis. Laredo Petroleum employs 340 workers across the globe.

The official website for Laredo Petroleum is www.laredopetro.com.

Laredo Petroleum's mailing address is 15 WEST SIXTH STREET SUITE 900, TULSA OK, 74119. The oil and gas producer can be reached via phone at 918-513-4570 or via email at [email protected]