Lamb Weston - LW Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Lamb Weston in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" LW shares.
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3 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Lamb Weston's stock. Their LW share price forecasts range from $54.00 to $75.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $67.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.9%.
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Lamb Weston's stock was trading at $63.38 at the beginning of the year. Since then, LW stock has increased by 22.5% and is now trading at $77.67.
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Lamb Weston saw a decrease in short interest in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,390,000 shares, a decrease of 9.1% from the August 15th total of 2,630,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,310,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.8 days. Approximately 1.7% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 5th 2022.
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Lamb Weston will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, October 5th at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:LW) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July, 27th. The specialty retailer reported $0.65 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.14. The specialty retailer earned $1.15 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.07 billion. Lamb Weston had a net margin of 4.90% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 78.71%.

Lamb Weston declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 20th. Investors of record on Friday, August 5th will be paid a dividend of $0.245 per share on Friday, September 2nd. This represents a $0.98 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.26%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 4th.
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Lamb Weston (NYSE:LW) pays an annual dividend of $0.98 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.26%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 71.53%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, LW will have a dividend payout ratio of 26.06% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Lamb Weston declared that its board has authorized a stock repurchase program on Friday, December 17th 2021, which permits the company to buyback $250,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to buy up to 3% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Lamb Weston updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 4th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.45-$2.85 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.95. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.70 billion-$4.80 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.02 billion.

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

Lamb Weston's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (4.58%), State Street Corp (3.61%), TPG GP A LLC (3.58%), London Co. of Virginia (2.57%), Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (2.51%) and Macquarie Group Ltd. (2.33%). Insiders that own company stock include Bernadette M Madarieta, Eryk J Spytek, Eryk J Spytek, Gerardo Scheufler, John C Hatto, Michael Jared Smith, Peter J Bensen, Robert A Niblock, Robert A Niblock, Robert Mcnutt, Thomas P Werner and William G Jurgensen.
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One share of LW stock can currently be purchased for approximately $77.67.

Lamb Weston (NYSE:LW) has a market capitalization of $11.16 billion and generates $4.10 billion in revenue each year. The specialty retailer earns $200.90 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.37 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 8,000 workers across the globe.

Lamb Weston's mailing address is 599 S. RIVERSHORE LANE, EAGLE ID, 83616. The official website for the company is www.lambweston.com. The specialty retailer can be reached via phone at (208) 938-1047 or via email at dexter.congbalay@lambweston.com.