Louisiana-Pacific Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:LPX)

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. Stockholders 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 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.16%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, August 16th. View Louisiana-Pacific's Dividend History.

Louisiana-Pacific announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share repurchase plan on Tuesday, August 7th 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $150,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 3.7% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are usually a sign that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Louisiana-Pacific Co. (NYSE:LPX) released its earnings results on Tuesday, August, 6th. The building manufacturing company reported $0.11 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates 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 net margin of 7.41% and a return on equity of 11.70%. Louisiana-Pacific's revenue was down 27.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $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 twelve-month target prices for Louisiana-Pacific's shares. Their predictions range from $24.75 to $32.00. On average, they anticipate Louisiana-Pacific's share price to reach $29.11 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.4% 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 2 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Louisiana-Pacific.

News headlines about LPX stock have trended neutral recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Louisiana-Pacific earned a news impact score of 0.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the building manufacturing company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Louisiana-Pacific.

Louisiana-Pacific saw a drop in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totalling 5,570,000 shares, a drop of 12.1% from the August 15th total of 6,340,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,730,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.2 days. Approximately 4.5% 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 a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Patten & Patten Inc. TN (0.09%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.04%), Rothschild Investment Corp IL (0.02%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%), Alpha Windward LLC (0.02%) and Strategic Wealth Management Group LLC (0.01%). 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 Pacer Advisors Inc., Strategic Wealth Management Group LLC, Alpha Windward LLC and Rothschild Investment Corp IL. View Insider Buying and Selling for Louisiana-Pacific.

LPX stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Cerebellum GP LLC and Patten & Patten Inc. TN. 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 $25.01.

Louisiana-Pacific has a market capitalization of $3.09 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.