Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) Issues Earnings Results

Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT - Get Free Report) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday. The business services provider reported $0.28 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.22 by $0.06, Zacks reports. Liquidity Services had a net margin of 6.37% and a return on equity of 20.94%. Liquidity Services updated its Q2 2025 guidance to 0.270-0.350 EPS.

Liquidity Services Trading Up 3.3 %

Shares of NASDAQ LQDT traded up $1.09 during trading hours on Monday, reaching $33.80. The stock had a trading volume of 744,209 shares, compared to its average volume of 299,277. The business's fifty day moving average price is $32.32 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $26.05. The firm has a market cap of $1.04 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 45.07 and a beta of 1.36. Liquidity Services has a 52-week low of $15.51 and a 52-week high of $39.72.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, CFO Jorge Celaya sold 16,540 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $34.10, for a total value of $564,014.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer now owns 33,608 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $1,146,032.80. This represents a 32.98 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Also, Director Edward Kolodzieski sold 2,000 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $31.90, for a total transaction of $63,800.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 17,229 shares of the company's stock, valued at $549,605.10. This trade represents a 10.40 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 101,668 shares of company stock worth $3,331,558. 28.40% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of research analysts have recently commented on the company. StockNews.com cut Liquidity Services from a "strong-buy" rating to a "buy" rating in a research note on Friday. Craig Hallum increased their target price on Liquidity Services from $28.00 to $37.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research note on Friday, December 13th. Finally, Barrington Research reiterated an "outperform" rating and set a $40.00 target price on shares of Liquidity Services in a research report on Monday, February 3rd.

About Liquidity Services

Liquidity Services, Inc provides e-commerce marketplaces, self-directed auction listing tools, and value-added services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through four segments: GovDeals, Retail Supply Chain Group (RSCG), Capital Assets Group (CAG), and Machinio. Its marketplaces include liquidation.com that enable corporations to sell surplus and salvage consumer goods and retail capital assets; GovDeals marketplace, which provides self-directed service solutions in which sellers list their own assets that enables local and state government entities, and commercial businesses located in the United States and Canada to sell surplus and salvage assets; and AllSurplus, a centralized marketplace that connects global buyer base with assets from across the network of marketplaces in a single destination.