In last trading session, Lamar Advertising Co (NASDAQ:LAMR) saw 0.81 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.36. Company’s recent per share price level of $119.87 trading at $3.0 or 2.57% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $12.27B. That closing price of LAMR’s stock is at a discount of -16.46% from its 52-week high price of $139.60 and is indicating a premium of 16.71% from its 52-week low price of $99.84. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.82 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 795.09K if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Lamar Advertising Co (LAMR), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.71. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 3 analysts covering the stock, 1 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 1 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Lamar Advertising Co (NASDAQ:LAMR) trade information
Upright in the green during last session for gaining 2.57%, in the last five days LAMR remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Friday, 05/16/25 when the stock touched $119.87 price level, adding 0.17% to its value on the day. Lamar Advertising Co’s shares saw a change of -1.54% in year-to-date performance and have moved 4.38% in past 5-day. Lamar Advertising Co (NASDAQ:LAMR) showed a performance of 12.00% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 4.21 million shares which calculate 5.03 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 103 to the stock, which implies a fall of -16.38% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 103 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 103. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 14.07% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 14.07% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -1.00% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 58.05% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 17.99%.
LAMR Dividends
Lamar Advertising Co is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-May-07 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 4.71%, the share has a forward dividend of 5.64 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 4.14%.
Lamar Advertising Co (NASDAQ:LAMR)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.79% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 98.74 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 99.52%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 98.74% institutions for Lamar Advertising Co that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at LAMR for having 12.61 million shares of worth $1.51 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 12.335 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 9.07 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 8.8709 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $1.08 billion.
On the other hand, VANGUARD SPECIALIZED FUNDS-Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund and iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Jan 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 3.39 shares of worth $406.51 million or 3.86% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 2.87 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $344.3 million in the company or a holder of 3.27% of company’s stock.
