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. Shareholders 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 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.92%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 14th. This is a boost from Louisiana-Pacific's previous quarterly dividend of $0.14. View Louisiana-Pacific's Dividend History.

Louisiana-Pacific announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback program 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 stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Louisiana-Pacific Co. (NYSE:LPX) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February, 11th. The building manufacturing company reported $0.05 earnings per share 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 was down 8.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous 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 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets 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 a possible upside of 6.1% from the stock's current price. 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 headlines about LPX stock have been trending negative on Thursday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive 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 five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Louisiana-Pacific earned a daily sentiment score of -2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles 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 impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Louisiana-Pacific.

Louisiana-Pacific saw a decrease in short interest in the month of February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totalling 4,830,000 shares, a decrease of 8.9% from the January 30th total of 5,300,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,130,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.3 days. Approximately 4.1% of the company's shares are sold short. 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 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 purchased 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 $30.13.

Louisiana-Pacific has a market capitalization of $3.38 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.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.