Witnessing the stock’s movement on the chart, on Thursday, LKQ Corp (NASDAQ: LKQ) had a quiet start as it plunged -1.05% to $49.99, before settling in for the price of $50.52 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, LKQ posted a 52-week range of $41.49-$59.38.
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In the past 5-years timespan, the Consumer Cyclical sector firm’s annual sales growth was 3.39%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 18.01%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 6.76%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $267.20 million, simultaneously with a float of $265.04 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $13.33 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $50.86, while the 200-day Moving Average is $50.15.
LKQ Corp (LKQ) Ownership Facts and Figures
Nothing is more important than checking the behaviour of major investors towards the stock of the Auto Parts industry. LKQ Corp’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.59%, in contrast to 99.12% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Mar 01 ’24, this organization’s President and CEO sold 200,000 shares at the rate of 51.97, making the entire transaction reach 10,394,860 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 386,522. Preceding that transaction, on Dec 14 ’23, Company’s Director sold 5,564 for 46.82, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 260,525. This particular insider is now the holder of 23,880 in total.
LKQ Corp (LKQ) Earnings and Revenue Records
As on 12/30/2023, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported $0.84 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at $0.76) by $0.08. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.12 per share during the current fiscal year.
LKQ Corp’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 6.76% and is forecasted to reach 4.47 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 33.50% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 18.01% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
LKQ Corp (NASDAQ: LKQ) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for LKQ Corp (LKQ). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.53. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 0.83. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $14.22, and its Beta score is 1.29. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.96. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 13.35.
In the same vein, LKQ’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 3.52, a figure that is expected to reach 0.95 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 4.47 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of LKQ Corp (LKQ)
Going through the that latest performance of [LKQ Corp, LKQ]. Its last 5-days volume of 1.11 million was inferior to the volume of 1.55 million it revealed a year ago. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 14.67% While, its Average True Range was 0.85.
Raw Stochastic average of LKQ Corp (LKQ) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 62.35%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 2.89% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 17.85% that was higher than 17.29% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
