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 2.18%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, August 16th. View Louisiana-Pacific's Dividend History.

Louisiana-Pacific announced that its board has authorized a stock buyback plan on Tuesday, August 7th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $150,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy up to 3.7% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Louisiana-Pacific Co. (NYSE:LPX) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, August, 6th. The building manufacturing company reported $0.11 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.25 by $0.14. The building manufacturing company had revenue of $588 million for 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 business's quarterly revenue was down 27.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business 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 1-year target prices for Louisiana-Pacific's shares. Their forecasts range from $24.75 to $32.00. On average, they anticipate Louisiana-Pacific's share price to reach $29.1071 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 17.6% 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 headlines about LPX stock have trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog 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. Louisiana-Pacific earned a media sentiment score of 0.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the building manufacturing company a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely 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 August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 9,894,100 shares, an increase of 61.4% from the July 31st total of 6,128,300 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,040,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.9 days. Approximately 8.0% of the company's shares 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (12.56%), BlackRock Inc. (12.56%), Vanguard Group Inc. (11.74%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (4.70%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (2.38%) and APG Asset Management N.V. (2.09%). Company insiders that own Louisiana-Pacific stock include Gary Cook, Lizanne C Gottung, Michael Emory Kinney, Neil Sherman 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., BlackRock Inc., Man Group plc, Vanguard Group Inc., WINTON GROUP Ltd, Panagora Asset Management Inc., APG Asset Management N.V. and Royal Bank of Canada. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of LPX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $24.76.

Louisiana-Pacific has a market capitalization of $3.06 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.