A new trading day began on Friday, with LKQ Corp (NASDAQ: LKQ) stock price down -0.97% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $29.75. LKQ’s price has ranged from $29.02 to $44.82 over the past 52 weeks.
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A company in the Consumer Cyclical sector has jumped its sales by 8.48% annually for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged -10.34%. With a float of $255.19 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $257.30 million.
In an organization with 47000 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 39.21%, operating margin of 8.4%, and the pretax margin is 6.83%.
LKQ Corp (LKQ) Insider and Institutional Ownership
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Auto Parts Industry. The insider ownership of LKQ Corp is 0.69%, while institutional ownership is 105.80%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jul 01 ’25, was worth 183,332. Before that another transaction happened on Jun 02 ’25, when Company’s Former Director proposed sale 15,000 for $39.87, making the entire transaction worth $598,086.
LKQ Corp (LKQ) Latest Financial update
In its latest quarterly report, released on 9/30/2024, the company reported earnings of 0.88 per share, which was $0.1 higher than the consensus estimate of $0.26. In terms of return on equity, this company recorded -19.55% in contrast with 50.0% return on Investment (trailing twelve months). Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.7 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -10.34% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 2.13% during the next five years compared to 8.48% growth over the previous five years of trading.
LKQ Corp (NASDAQ: LKQ) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are LKQ Corp’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.69. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.54. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 11.21.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.72, a number that is poised to hit 0.76 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.43 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of LKQ Corp (LKQ)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 3.22 million. That was better than the volume of 2.57 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 23.98%.
During the past 100 days, LKQ Corp’s (LKQ) raw stochastic average was set at 3.71%, which indicates a significant decrease from 5.41% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 0.94 in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 0.95 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $36.43, while its 200-day Moving Average is $38.63.
