NYSE:LPT - Liberty Property Trust Stock Price, Price Target & More

Liberty Property Trust trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LPT."

Liberty Property Trust declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, June 14th. Investors of record on Monday, July 2nd will be paid a dividend of $0.40 per share on Sunday, July 15th. This represents a $1.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.64%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, June 29th. View Liberty Property Trust's Dividend History.

Liberty Property Trust announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase plan on Wednesday, October 4th 2017, which authorizes the company to repurchase $250,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are often an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Liberty Property Trust (NYSE:LPT) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, April, 24th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.95 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.62 by $0.33. The real estate investment trust had revenue of $190.20 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $145.62 million. Liberty Property Trust had a return on equity of 8.55% and a net margin of 49.95%. The business's revenue was up 14.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.60 EPS. View Liberty Property Trust's Earnings History.

Liberty Property Trust is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, July, 24th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Liberty Property Trust.

Liberty Property Trust updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Tuesday, April, 24th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.55-$2.65 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.58.

6 brokers have issued 1 year price objectives for Liberty Property Trust's stock. Their forecasts range from $41.00 to $45.00. On average, they anticipate Liberty Property Trust's stock price to reach $43.20 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Liberty Property Trust.

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Media coverage about LPT stock has trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. Accern identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Liberty Property Trust earned a daily sentiment score of 0.12 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news stories about the real estate investment trust an impact score of 46.72 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term.

Liberty Property Trust's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (13.92%), Royal Bank of Canada (2.52%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1.78%), Northern Trust Corp (1.70%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.55%) and Centersquare Investment Management LLC (1.20%). Company insiders that own Liberty Property Trust stock include David L Lingerfelt, Frederick F Buchholz, Fredric J Tomczyk and M Leanne Lachman. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Liberty Property Trust.

LPT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Principal Financial Group Inc., Principal Financial Group Inc., Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., Prudential Financial Inc., Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A. and Swiss National Bank. Company insiders that have sold Liberty Property Trust company stock in the last year include David L Lingerfelt, Frederick F Buchholz and M Leanne Lachman. View Insider Buying and Selling for Liberty Property Trust.

LPT stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Centersquare Investment Management LLC, Citadel Advisors LLC, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Millennium Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., V3 Capital Management L.P., Baird Financial Group Inc. and Point72 Asset Management L.P.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Liberty Property Trust.

Shares of LPT 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of LPT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $43.96.

Liberty Property Trust has a market capitalization of $6.51 billion and generates $719.78 million in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $282.34 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.59 on an earnings per share basis. Liberty Property Trust employs 295 workers across the globe.

Liberty Property Trust's mailing address is 500 CHESTERFIELD PARKWAY, MALVERN PA, 19355. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at 610-648-1700 or via email at [email protected]