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. Shareholders 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.15%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, August 16th. View Louisiana-Pacific's Dividend History.

Louisiana-Pacific declared that its board has approved a share repurchase program on Tuesday, August 7th 2018, which permits the company to buyback $150,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase up to 3.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback 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, August, 6th. The building manufacturing company reported $0.11 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.25 by $0.14. The building manufacturing company earned $588 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $641.63 million. Louisiana-Pacific had a return on equity of 11.70% and a net margin of 7.41%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 27.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.11 EPS. 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 12 month price objectives for Louisiana-Pacific's stock. Their forecasts range from $24.75 to $32.00. On average, they expect Louisiana-Pacific's stock price to reach $29.1071 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 15.8% 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.

Headlines about LPX stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news 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 news sentiment score of 0.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the building manufacturing company a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Louisiana-Pacific.

Louisiana-Pacific saw a increase in short interest in the month of 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 daily trading volume, of 2,040,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.9 days. Currently, 8.0% of the shares of the 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 retail and institutional 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 acquired 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 $25.13.

Louisiana-Pacific has a market capitalization of $3.11 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.