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 Friday, August 3rd. Investors of record on Friday, August 17th will be paid a dividend of $0.13 per share on Friday, August 31st. This represents a $0.52 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.72%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 16th. View Louisiana-Pacific's Dividend History.

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

Louisiana-Pacific Co. (NYSE:LPX) announced its earnings results on Tuesday, August, 7th. The construction company reported $1.08 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.98 by $0.10. The construction company had revenue of $810.80 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $788.55 million. Louisiana-Pacific had a return on equity of 28.21% and a net margin of 16.85%. View Louisiana-Pacific's Earnings History.

Louisiana-Pacific is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, November, 5th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Louisiana-Pacific.

9 brokerages have issued 1-year price objectives for Louisiana-Pacific's shares. Their forecasts range from $27.00 to $39.00. On average, they expect Louisiana-Pacific's stock price to reach $33.5714 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 11.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Louisiana-Pacific.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Louisiana-Pacific in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Louisiana-Pacific.

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News stories about LPX stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Louisiana-Pacific earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.15 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media stories about the construction company an impact score of 48.43 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View Recent Headlines for Louisiana-Pacific.

Louisiana-Pacific's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (12.69%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (3.11%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.95%), Acadian Asset Management LLC (1.97%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (1.35%) and Van ECK Associates Corp (1.04%). Company insiders that own Louisiana-Pacific stock include Curtis M Stevens, Daniel K Frierson, Gary Cook, Kurt M Landgraf, Lizanne C Gottung, 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 Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, FMR LLC, Capital Fund Management S.A., Convergence Investment Partners LLC, Royce & Associates LP, Alambic Investment Management L.P., Victory Capital Management Inc. and Chicago Equity Partners LLC. Company insiders that have sold Louisiana-Pacific company stock in the last year include Gary Cook, Lizanne C Gottung, Michael Sims, Neil Sherman and Rebecca Anne Barckley. View Insider Buying and Selling for Louisiana-Pacific.

LPX stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Schroder Investment Management Group, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Wells Fargo & Company MN, Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Systematic Financial Management LP and Marshall Wace LLP. 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 $30.21.

Louisiana-Pacific has a market capitalization of $4.31 billion and generates $2.73 billion in revenue each year. The construction company earns $389.80 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.33 on an earnings per share basis. Louisiana-Pacific employs 5,000 workers across the globe.

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