NYSE:LPT - Liberty Property Trust Stock Price, News & Analysis

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

Liberty Property Trust announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, June 14th. Investors of record on Monday, July 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.41 per share on Monday, July 15th. This represents a $1.64 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.14%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, June 28th. View Liberty Property Trust's Dividend History.

Liberty Property Trust declared that its board has approved a share buyback plan on Wednesday, October 4th 2017, which allows the company to buyback $250,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Liberty Property Trust (NYSE:LPT) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October, 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $1.01 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.65 by $0.36. The real estate investment trust earned $121.51 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $119.79 million. Liberty Property Trust had a net margin of 70.77% and a return on equity of 5.71%. The company's revenue was up 6.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.66 earnings per share. View Liberty Property Trust's Earnings History.

Liberty Property Trust is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 22nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Liberty Property Trust.

4 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Liberty Property Trust's stock. Their predictions range from $42.00 to $57.00. On average, they expect Liberty Property Trust's share price to reach $49.3333 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.4%. View Analyst Price Targets for Liberty Property Trust.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Liberty Property Trust in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Liberty Property Trust.

Media coverage about LPT stock has trended positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Liberty Property Trust earned a media sentiment score of 2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Liberty Property Trust.

Liberty Property Trust saw a increase in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,447,400 shares, an increase of 31.1% from the June 30th total of 1,866,500 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 803,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.0 days. Approximately 1.7% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Liberty Property Trust's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Liberty Property Trust include Equity Residential (EQR), SBA Communications (SBAC), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Ventas (VTR), DIGITAL RLTY TR/SH (DLR), Realty Income (O), Essex Property Trust (ESS), Boston Properties (BXP), Weyerhaeuser (WY), HCP (HCP), Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Extra Space Storage (EXR), WP Carey (WPC), Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA) and UDR (UDR).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Liberty Property Trust investors own include Stag Industrial (STAG), Macquarie Infrastructure (MIC), WP Carey (WPC), Intel (INTC), American Tower (AMT), Alibaba Group (BABA), Baxter International (BAX), Bank of Hawaii (BOH), Caterpillar (CAT) and CVS Health (CVS).

Liberty Property Trust's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (14.87%), BlackRock Inc. (13.47%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (3.47%), Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (3.25%), Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (3.25%) and Invesco Ltd. (3.23%). Company insiders that own Liberty Property Trust stock include David L Lingerfelt, Frederick F Buchholz, M Leanne Lachman, Mary Beth Morrissey and Michael T Hagan. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Liberty Property Trust.

LPT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cohen & Steers Inc., Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, BlackRock Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Wells Fargo & Company MN and Vanguard Group Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Liberty Property Trust company stock in the last year include David L Lingerfelt, Mary Beth Morrissey and Michael T Hagan. View Insider Buying and Selling for Liberty Property Trust.

LPT stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Zimmer Partners LP, Long Pond Capital LP, Centersquare Investment Management LLC, Invesco Ltd., Commonwealth Bank of Australia and California Public Employees Retirement System. 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 $52.16.

Liberty Property Trust has a market capitalization of $7.74 billion and generates $704.89 million in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $479.61 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.20 on an earnings per share basis. Liberty Property Trust employs 271 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Liberty Property Trust.

The official website for Liberty Property Trust is http://www.libertyproperty.com/.

Liberty Property Trust's mailing address is 650 EAST SWEDESFORD ROAD, WAYNE PA, 19087. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at 610-648-1700 or via email at [email protected]