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 announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, June 14th. Stockholders of record on Monday, July 2nd will be given a dividend of $0.40 per share on Sunday, July 15th. This represents a $1.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.62%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, June 29th. View Liberty Property Trust's Dividend History.

Liberty Property Trust declared that its board has authorized a stock buyback program 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. Stock repurchase programs are generally a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Liberty Property Trust (NYSE:LPT) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April, 24th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.95 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.62 by $0.33. The real estate investment trust earned $190.20 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate 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 quarterly revenue was up 14.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company 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 issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Tuesday, April, 24th. The company provided earnings per share (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 twelve-month price objectives for Liberty Property Trust's stock. Their predictions range from $41.00 to $45.00. On average, they expect Liberty Property Trust's share price to reach $43.20 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Liberty Property Trust.

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News headlines about LPT stock have trended somewhat positive on Sunday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. Accern identifies positive and negative press coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Liberty Property Trust earned a media sentiment score of 0.11 on Accern's scale. They also gave news coverage about the real estate investment trust an impact score of 46.61 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.

Liberty Property Trust's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors 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 purchased 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 $44.17.

Liberty Property Trust has a market capitalization of $6.53 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]