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 announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, August 6th. Investors of record on Monday, August 19th will be paid a dividend of $0.135 per share on Tuesday, September 3rd. This represents a $0.54 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.41%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, August 16th. View Louisiana-Pacific's Dividend History.

Louisiana-Pacific declared that its board has approved a share 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 reacquire up to 3.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally an indication that the company's board 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 the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.25 by $0.14. The building manufacturing company had revenue of $588 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $641.63 million. Louisiana-Pacific had a net margin of 7.41% and a return on equity of 11.70%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 27.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $1.11 earnings per share. 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 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Louisiana-Pacific's shares. 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 twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 29.7% 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.

Media stories about LPX stock have trended positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. 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 media coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Louisiana-Pacific.

Louisiana-Pacific saw a increase in short interest in 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 trading volume of 2,080,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.9 days. Approximately 4.6% of the company's stock are short sold. View Louisiana-Pacific's Current Options Chain.

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Louisiana-Pacific's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors 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 $22.45.

Louisiana-Pacific has a market capitalization of $2.78 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.