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

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

Louisiana-Pacific declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 7th. Investors of record on Tuesday, February 18th will be paid a dividend of $0.145 per share on Monday, March 2nd. This represents a $0.58 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.71%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 14th. This is a boost from Louisiana-Pacific's previous quarterly dividend of $0.14. View Louisiana-Pacific's Dividend History.

Louisiana-Pacific declared that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase plan on Tuesday, August 7th 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $150,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to reacquire up to 3.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are often an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Louisiana-Pacific Co. (NYSE:LPX) released its earnings results on Tuesday, February, 11th. The building manufacturing company reported $0.05 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.10 by $0.05. The building manufacturing company earned $537 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $561.45 million. Louisiana-Pacific had a negative net margin of 0.22% and a positive return on equity of 3.79%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 8.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.19 earnings per share. View Louisiana-Pacific's Earnings History.

Louisiana-Pacific is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Louisiana-Pacific.

6 brokerages have issued 12-month price objectives for Louisiana-Pacific's shares. Their forecasts range from $24.75 to $35.00. On average, they anticipate Louisiana-Pacific's share price to reach $31.96 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.0%. View Analyst Price Targets for Louisiana-Pacific.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Louisiana-Pacific in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings, 1 buy rating and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Louisiana-Pacific.

Headlines about LPX stock have trended very negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Louisiana-Pacific earned a daily sentiment score of -3.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the building manufacturing company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Louisiana-Pacific.

Louisiana-Pacific saw a decline in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 5,300,000 shares, a decline of 7.0% from the January 15th total of 5,700,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,280,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.1 days. Approximately 4.5% 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 many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Bank of New York Mellon Corp (5.66%), State Street Corp (3.16%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (2.48%), Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (1.80%), FMR LLC (1.53%) and Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.38%). 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 Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, NorthCoast Asset Management LLC, Royce & Associates LP, State Street Corp, Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC, Gabelli Funds LLC, UBS Group AG and Van ECK Associates Corp. View Insider Buying and Selling for Louisiana-Pacific.

LPX stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Castle Hook Partners LP, AJO LP, Castleark Management LLC, FMR LLC, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, FIL Ltd and Russell Investments Group Ltd.. 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 $33.99.

Louisiana-Pacific has a market capitalization of $3.81 billion and generates $2.31 billion in revenue each year. The building manufacturing company earns $-5,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.37 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 SUITE 2000, NASHVILLE TN, 37219. The building manufacturing company can be reached via phone at 615-986-5600.