On Friday, LKQ Corp (NASDAQ: LKQ) was -1.86% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $40.77. A 52-week range for LKQ has been $35.57 – $53.68.
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Annual sales at Consumer Cyclical sector company grew by 3.39% over the past five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at -7.54%. With a float of $261.36 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $267.20 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 49000 employees.
LKQ Corp (LKQ) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward LKQ Corp stocks. The insider ownership of LKQ Corp is 0.72%, while institutional ownership is 99.68%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jul 29 ’24, was worth 99,375. In this transaction SVP – General Counsel of this company bought 2,500 shares at a rate of $39.75, taking the stock ownership to the 94,670 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jul 29 ’24, when Company’s SVP and CFO bought 2,500 for $39.88, making the entire transaction worth $99,700. This insider now owns 58,126 shares in total.
LKQ Corp (LKQ) Latest Financial update
Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 6/30/2024, it has been observed that the corporation posted 0.86 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was less than consensus figure (set at 0.96) by -0.1. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.86 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -7.54% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 33.50% during the next five years compared to 18.01% growth over the previous five years of trading.
LKQ Corp (NASDAQ: LKQ) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what LKQ Corp (LKQ) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.70. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.73. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 14.03.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.75, a number that is poised to hit 0.88 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.95 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of LKQ Corp (LKQ)
LKQ Corp (NASDAQ: LKQ) saw its 5-day average volume 2.97 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 1.81 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 70.93%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.98.
During the past 100 days, LKQ Corp’s (LKQ) raw stochastic average was set at 40.11%, which indicates a significant decrease from 54.91% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 25.76% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 30.84% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $41.27, while its 200-day Moving Average is $45.40. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $40.31 in the near term. At $40.62, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $40.79. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $39.83, it is likely to go to the next support level at $39.66. The third support level lies at $39.35 if the price breaches the second support level.
LKQ Corp (NASDAQ: LKQ) Key Stats
There are 266,776K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 10.53 billion. As of now, sales total 13,866 M while income totals 936,000 K. Its latest quarter income was 3,711 M while its last quarter net income were 185,000 K.
