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 given 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 1.72%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, February 14th. This is a positive change 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 authorized a stock repurchase program 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 purchase up to 3.7% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Louisiana-Pacific Co. (NYSE:LPX) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February, 11th. The building manufacturing company reported $0.05 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.10 by $0.05. The building manufacturing company earned $537 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $561.45 million. Louisiana-Pacific had a negative net margin of 0.22% and a positive return on equity of 3.79%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 8.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm 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 brokers have issued 1 year target prices 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 5.4%. 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.

News coverage about LPX stock has been trending extremely negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Louisiana-Pacific earned a media sentiment score of -4.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the building manufacturing company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Louisiana-Pacific.

Louisiana-Pacific saw a decline in short interest in 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 days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.1 days. Approximately 4.5% of the shares of the company are short sold. 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 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 bought 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 $33.77.

Louisiana-Pacific has a market capitalization of $3.78 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.