NYSE:LW - Lamb Weston Stock Price, Forecast & News

Lamb Weston trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LW."

Lamb Weston announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, December 19th. Stockholders of record on Friday, January 31st will be paid a dividend of $0.23 per share on Friday, February 28th. This represents a $0.92 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.01%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, January 30th. This is a boost from Lamb Weston's previous quarterly dividend of $0.20. View Lamb Weston's Dividend History.

Lamb Weston Holdings Inc (NYSE:LW) issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, January, 3rd. The specialty retailer reported $0.95 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.85 by $0.10. The specialty retailer had revenue of $1.02 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $964.88 million. Lamb Weston had a return on equity of 869.30% and a net margin of 12.90%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 11.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.80 earnings per share. View Lamb Weston's Earnings History.

Lamb Weston is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, April 7th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Lamb Weston.

8 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Lamb Weston's shares. Their forecasts range from $65.00 to $92.00. On average, they anticipate Lamb Weston's share price to reach $81.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 10.9%. View Analyst Price Targets for Lamb Weston.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Lamb Weston in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Lamb Weston.

News headlines about LW stock have trended positive recently, according to InfoTrie. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Lamb Weston earned a news impact score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the specialty retailer a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Lamb Weston.

Lamb Weston saw a decline in short interest in December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 4,810,000 shares, a decline of 19.6% from the November 28th total of 5,980,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,020,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.7 days. Approximately 3.3% of the company's stock are sold short. View Lamb Weston's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Lamb Weston include Kraft Heinz (KHC), Lancaster Colony (LANC), TreeHouse Foods (THS), Armanino Foods Of Distinction (AMNF), Barfresh Food Group (BRFH) and Future Fintech Group (FTFT).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Lamb Weston investors own include RADCOM (RDCM), Home Depot (HD), NVIDIA (NVDA), Conagra Brands (CAG), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Walt Disney (DIS), Amgen (AMGN), NuStar Energy (NS), New Senior Investment Group (SNR) and Verizon Communications (VZ).

Lamb Weston's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.30%), Scout Investments Inc. (0.11%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.09%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.09%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.04%) and Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management UK Ltd. (0.02%). Company insiders that own Lamb Weston stock include Bernadette M Madarieta, Eryk J Spytek, Robert Mcnutt and William G Jurgensen. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Lamb Weston.

LW stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Calamos Advisors LLC, IFP Advisors Inc, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, First Financial Corp IN, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Huntington National Bank. Company insiders that have sold Lamb Weston company stock in the last year include Bernadette M Madarieta, Eryk J Spytek and Robert Mcnutt. View Insider Buying and Selling for Lamb Weston.

LW stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Scout Investments Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management UK Ltd., Sciencast Management LP, Tributary Capital Management LLC, Cerebellum GP LLC, Diligent Investors LLC, DNB Asset Management AS and Diversified Trust Co. View Insider Buying and Selling for Lamb Weston.

Shares of LW 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 LW stock can currently be purchased for approximately $90.95.

Lamb Weston has a market capitalization of $13.29 billion and generates $3.76 billion in revenue each year. The specialty retailer earns $467.80 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.22 on an earnings per share basis. Lamb Weston employs 7,600 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Lamb Weston.

The official website for Lamb Weston is http://www.lambweston.com/.

Lamb Weston's mailing address is 599 S. RIVERSHORE LANE, EAGLE ID, 83616. The specialty retailer can be reached via phone at 208-938-1047 or via email at [email protected]