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. Investors of record on Monday, August 19th will be given 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 1.91%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, August 16th. View Louisiana-Pacific's Dividend History.

Louisiana-Pacific declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock 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 shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are often an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Louisiana-Pacific Co. (NYSE:LPX) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August, 6th. The building manufacturing company reported $0.11 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.25 by $0.14. The building manufacturing company earned $588 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $641.63 million. Louisiana-Pacific had a net margin of 7.41% and a return on equity of 11.70%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 27.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm 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.

Louisiana-Pacific will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, November 5th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

7 brokers have issued 1 year price objectives for Louisiana-Pacific's stock. Their predictions range from $24.75 to $32.00. On average, they expect Louisiana-Pacific's share price to reach $29.11 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 2.9% 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 stories about LPX stock have trended somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie reports. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Louisiana-Pacific earned a news sentiment score of -1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the building manufacturing company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Louisiana-Pacific.

Louisiana-Pacific saw a drop in short interest in the month of 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 days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.2 days. Approximately 4.5% of the company's 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Patten & Patten Inc. TN (0.09%), 6 Meridian (0.06%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.04%), State of Michigan Retirement System (0.03%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.02%) and Rothschild Investment Corp IL (0.02%). 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 Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Columbus Macro LLC, Pacer Advisors Inc., Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, Strategic Wealth Management Group LLC, Alpha Windward LLC, Rothschild Investment Corp IL and State of Michigan Retirement System. View Insider Buying and Selling for Louisiana-Pacific.

LPX stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including 6 Meridian, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Oakbrook Investments LLC, 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 $28.29.

Louisiana-Pacific has a market capitalization of $3.50 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.