Louisiana-Pacific Corp (NYSE: LPX) kicked off on Tuesday, up 7.28% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $101.14. Over the past 52 weeks, LPX has traded in a range of $57.13-$109.73.
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A company in the Industrials sector has jumped its sales by 1.64% annually for the last half of the decade. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 60.20%. With a float of $69.11 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $72.16 million.
In an organization with 4100 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 28.38%, operating margin of 18.54%, and the pretax margin is 18.06%.
Louisiana-Pacific Corp (LPX) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Building Products & Equipment Industry. The insider ownership of Louisiana-Pacific Corp is 1.66%, while institutional ownership is 93.08%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Sep 16 ’24, was worth 245,750. In this transaction Director of this company sold 2,500 shares at a rate of $98.30, taking the stock ownership to the 21,005 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Sep 16 ’24, when Company’s Director proposed sale 5,000 for $97.92, making the entire transaction worth $489,600.
Louisiana-Pacific Corp (LPX) Latest Financial update
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 9/30/2024, the organization reported 0.71 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 0.55) by 0.16. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.1 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 60.20% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 4.27% during the next five years compared to -1.98% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Louisiana-Pacific Corp (NYSE: LPX) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Louisiana-Pacific Corp’s (LPX) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 1.69. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.61. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 16.09.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 5.81, a number that is poised to hit 0.58 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 5.13 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Louisiana-Pacific Corp (LPX)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 0.86 million. That was better than the volume of 0.85 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 58.80%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.30.
During the past 100 days, Louisiana-Pacific Corp’s (LPX) raw stochastic average was set at 89.18%, which indicates a significant increase from 76.54% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 44.49% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 30.54% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $101.66, while its 200-day Moving Average is $87.10. However, in the short run, Louisiana-Pacific Corp’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $111.85. Second resistance stands at $115.21. The third major resistance level sits at $118.36. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $105.35, it is likely to go to the next support level at $102.20. The third support level lies at $98.84 if the price breaches the second support level.
Louisiana-Pacific Corp (NYSE: LPX) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 7.62 billion has total of 70,276K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 2,581 M in contrast with the sum of 178,000 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 814,000 K and last quarter income was 160,000 K.
