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 declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, December 10th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, January 2nd will be paid a dividend of $0.40 per share on Tuesday, January 15th. This represents a $1.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.37%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, December 31st. View Liberty Property Trust's Dividend History.

Liberty Property Trust announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share repurchase program on Wednesday, October 4th 2017, which allows the company to buyback $250,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Liberty Property Trust (NYSE:LPT) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February, 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.74 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.63 by $0.11. The real estate investment trust earned $124.90 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $123.19 million. Liberty Property Trust had a net margin of 66.67% and a return on equity of 4.81%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 9.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.68 earnings per share. View Liberty Property Trust's Earnings History.

Liberty Property Trust is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, April 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Liberty Property Trust.

Liberty Property Trust updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, February, 5th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.53-2.65 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.58. Liberty Property Trust also updated its FY 2019 guidance to $2.53-2.65 EPS.

6 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for Liberty Property Trust's shares. Their predictions range from $42.00 to $47.00. On average, they anticipate Liberty Property Trust's share price to reach $44.40 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.6%. View Analyst Price Targets for Liberty Property Trust.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Liberty Property Trust in the last year. There are currently 5 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 been trending positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring 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 five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Liberty Property Trust earned a coverage optimism score of 2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term.

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Liberty Property Trust's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (13.85%), Cohen & Steers Inc. (4.24%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.85%), Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (1.66%), Northern Trust Corp (1.63%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.55%). Company insiders that own Liberty Property Trust stock include David L Lingerfelt, Frederick F Buchholz, Fredric J Tomczyk, M Leanne Lachman and Mary Beth Morrissey. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Liberty Property Trust.

LPT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Land & Buildings Investment Management LLC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Two Sigma Investments LP, Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC, Millennium Management LLC, V3 Capital Management L.P., D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc. and Westpac Banking Corp. Company insiders that have sold Liberty Property Trust company stock in the last year include David L Lingerfelt, Frederick F Buchholz, M Leanne Lachman and Mary Beth Morrissey. View Insider Buying and Selling for Liberty Property Trust.

LPT stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cohen & Steers Inc., Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Principal Financial Group Inc., CI Investments Inc., Zimmer Partners LP, Vision Capital Corp, BlackRock Inc. and United Services Automobile Association. 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 $47.54.

Liberty Property Trust has a market capitalization of $7.03 billion and generates $704.89 million in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $479.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.20 on an earnings per share basis. Liberty Property Trust employs 295 workers across the globe.

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]