NYSE:LPXLouisiana-Pacific Stock Price, Forecast & News

Louisiana-Pacific's stock was trading at $22.00 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, LPX stock has increased by 16.6% and is now trading at $25.65. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Louisiana-Pacific in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Louisiana-Pacific.

Louisiana-Pacific is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 4th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Louisiana-Pacific.

Louisiana-Pacific Co. (NYSE:LPX) announced its earnings results on Tuesday, May, 5th. The building manufacturing company reported $0.34 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.30 by $0.04. The building manufacturing company earned $585 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $581.98 million. Louisiana-Pacific had a return on equity of 5.91% and a net margin of 0.04%. Louisiana-Pacific's revenue for the quarter was up .5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.13 EPS. View Louisiana-Pacific's earnings history.

Louisiana-Pacific declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 5th. Shareholders of record on Friday, May 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.145 per share on Monday, June 1st. This represents a $0.58 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.26%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 14th. View Louisiana-Pacific's dividend history.

Louisiana-Pacific declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback 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 purchase 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.

7 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Louisiana-Pacific's shares. Their forecasts range from $26.00 to $34.00. On average, they anticipate Louisiana-Pacific's stock price to reach $29.80 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.2% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Louisiana-Pacific.

Media headlines about LPX stock have trended very negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Louisiana-Pacific earned a media sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the building manufacturing company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View the latest news about Louisiana-Pacific.

Louisiana-Pacific saw a increase in short interest in the month of June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,890,000 shares, an increase of 10.7% from the May 31st total of 2,610,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,800,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.6 days. Currently, 2.6% of the company's shares are sold short. View Louisiana-Pacific's Current Options Chain.

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

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 $25.65.

Louisiana-Pacific has a market capitalization of $2.88 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 4,800 workers across the globe.

The official website for Louisiana-Pacific is 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.