NYSE:LPX - Louisiana-Pacific Stock Price, News & Analysis

Louisiana-Pacific trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LPX."

Louisiana-Pacific declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, August 6th. Shareholders of record on Monday, August 19th will be given a dividend of $0.135 per share on Tuesday, September 3rd. This represents a $0.54 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.39%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, August 16th. View Louisiana-Pacific's Dividend History.

Louisiana-Pacific announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback plan on Tuesday, August 7th 2018, which allows the company to buyback $150,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to buy up to 3.7% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are generally a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Louisiana-Pacific Co. (NYSE:LPX) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August, 6th. The building manufacturing company reported $0.11 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.25 by $0.14. The building manufacturing company earned $588 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $641.63 million. Louisiana-Pacific had a net margin of 7.41% and a return on equity of 11.70%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 27.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $1.11 EPS. View Louisiana-Pacific's Earnings History.

Louisiana-Pacific is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 5th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Louisiana-Pacific.

7 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Louisiana-Pacific's stock. Their forecasts range from $24.75 to $32.00. On average, they anticipate Louisiana-Pacific's stock price to reach $29.1071 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 28.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Louisiana-Pacific.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Louisiana-Pacific in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Louisiana-Pacific.

Press coverage about LPX stock has been trending positive on Thursday, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Louisiana-Pacific earned a media sentiment score of 2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the building manufacturing company a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Louisiana-Pacific.

Louisiana-Pacific saw a increase in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 6,128,300 shares, an increase of 16.2% from the June 30th total of 5,271,900 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,080,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.9 days. Currently, 4.6% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Louisiana-Pacific's Current Options Chain.

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Louisiana-Pacific's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (12.56%), Vanguard Group Inc. (11.74%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (4.70%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (2.38%), APG Asset Management N.V. (2.09%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.75%). Company insiders that own Louisiana-Pacific stock include Gary Cook, Lizanne C Gottung, Michael Emory Kinney, Michael Sims, Neil Sherman, Rebecca Anne Barckley and William Bradley Southern. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Louisiana-Pacific.

LPX stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Man Group plc, Vanguard Group Inc., WINTON GROUP Ltd, Panagora Asset Management Inc., APG Asset Management N.V., Royal Bank of Canada and Van ECK Associates Corp. Company insiders that have sold Louisiana-Pacific company stock in the last year include Gary Cook, Michael Emory Kinney, Neil Sherman and William Bradley Southern. View Insider Buying and Selling for Louisiana-Pacific.

LPX stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Deprince Race & Zollo Inc., Pictet Asset Management Ltd., Pictet Asset Management Ltd., Bank of Montreal Can, Point72 Asset Management L.P. and Balyasny Asset Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Louisiana-Pacific.

Shares of LPX 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 LPX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $22.58.

Louisiana-Pacific has a market capitalization of $2.79 billion and generates $2.83 billion in revenue each year. The building manufacturing company earns $394.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.74 on an earnings per share basis. Louisiana-Pacific employs 4,900 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Louisiana-Pacific.

The official website for Louisiana-Pacific is http://www.lpcorp.com/.

Louisiana-Pacific's mailing address is 414 UNION STREET, NASHVILLE TN, 37219. The building manufacturing company can be reached via phone at 615-986-5600.