LKQ Corp (NASDAQ: LKQ) on Friday, soared 0.97% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $36.24. Within the past 52 weeks, LKQ’s price has moved between $35.57 and $53.68.
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Annual sales at Consumer Cyclical sector company grew by 2.92% over the past five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of -10.47%. With a float of $258.15 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $261.20 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 49000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 38.09%, operating margin of 8.95%, and the pretax margin is 6.7%.
LKQ Corp (LKQ) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Observing investor behavior towards Auto Parts industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of LKQ Corp is 0.70%, while institutional ownership is 99.57%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jan 02 ’25, was worth 184,215. Before that another transaction happened on Jan 02 ’25, when Company’s Director sold 5,000 for $36.84, making the entire transaction worth $184,215. This insider now owns 374,462 shares in total.
LKQ Corp (LKQ) Latest Financial update
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -10.47% 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
LKQ Corp (LKQ) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.67 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.66. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 12.84.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.70, a number that is poised to hit 0.75 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.68 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of LKQ Corp (LKQ)
LKQ Corp (NASDAQ: LKQ) saw its 5-day average volume 1.8 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 1.98 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 45.42%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.86.
During the past 100 days, LKQ Corp’s (LKQ) raw stochastic average was set at 13.53%, which indicates a significant decrease from 36.58% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 23.20% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 21.81% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $37.92, while its 200-day Moving Average is $41.71. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $36.99 in the near term. At $37.40, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $38.11. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $35.87, it is likely to go to the next support level at $35.16. The third support level lies at $34.75 if the price breaches the second support level.
LKQ Corp (NASDAQ: LKQ) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 9.60 billion based on 259,960K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 13,866 M and income totals 936,000 K. The company made 3,584 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 191,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.
