LKQ Corp (LKQ) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $38.39, with 3.27 million shares of worth about $125.45 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -16.60% during that period and on January 16, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.51%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 261.20M shares, out of which, 258.16M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 5.64% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 1.08%. Year-to-date (YTD), LKQ shares are showing a performance of 4.46% which decreased to -19.04% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $35.56 but also hit the highest price of $53.68 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for LKQ Corp shares is 2.36 million. The stock is currently trading 4.38% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 1.42% for SMA50 and it goes to -6.55% lower than SMA200.
LKQ Corp (NASDAQ: LKQ) currently have 261.20M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 99.79% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $9.98B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.29. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 14.22, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.70 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 0.67 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.93. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for LKQ, volatility over the week remained 1.84% while standing at 2.31% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that LKQ Corp (LKQ) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.75 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.85 and it is 3.65 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.69 which is 0.79 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 0.84 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -10.48% while it is estimated to increase by 7.40% in next year.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by MKM Partners on July 13, 2022 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $68 to it. On February 17, 2022, Barrington Research Downgrade their recommendations, while on August 02, 2021, Raymond James Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $60. Stock get a Neutral rating from Northcoast on June 08, 2020.
