Home Sectors Industrials Current Valuation: Landstar System (NASDAQ: LSTR)

Current Valuation: Landstar System (NASDAQ: LSTR)

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Landstar System trades as part of the transportation and logistics industry and is in the industrials sector. The company CEO is James B. Gattoni. Landstar System Inc is an asset-light provider of integrated transportation management solutions. The company offers services to its customers across multiple transportation modes.

Previous Intraday Trading Performance:

The LSTR stock showed a previous change of 3.16% with an open at 97.75 and a close of 99.94. It reached an intraday high of 100.07 and a low of 97.75.

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Liquidity:

The stock has a market cap of $4.0b with 40.2m shares outstanding, of which the float is 39.4m shares. Trading volume reached 456,405 shares compared to its average volume of 439,952 shares. Based on the current average volume and close price, the trading liquidity is good.

Historical Trading Performance:

Over the last five trading days, Landstar System shares returned 1.95% and in the past 30 trading days it returned -10.76%. Over three months, it changed -6.85%. In one year it has changed -10.51% and within that year its 52-week high was 128.70 and its 52-week low was 90.23. LSTR stock is 10.76% above its 52 Week Low.

Our calculations show a 200 day moving average of 107.47 and a 50 day moving average of 108.01. Currently LSTR stock is trading -7.00% below its 200 day moving average and may not be a good opportunity to buy as it may continue to trend down.

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Earnings:

The last annual fiscal EPS for the company was reported at 6.19 that ended on 31st of December 2018, which according to the previous close, that is a PE of 16.15. Based on 8 analyst estimates, the consensus EPS for the next quarter is 1.52. The TTM EPS is 6.19, which comes to a TTM PE of 16.15. Historically, the PE high was 33.10 and the PE low was 15.70. If the stock reached its PE low, that would represent a price of 97.16, which is a decrease of -2.79%.

Below was the last reported quarterly diluted earnings per share:

1stQtr of 2019 (Reported on 04/24/2019): 1.58
4thQtr of 2018 (Reported on 01/30/2019): 1.68
3rdQtr of 2018 (Reported on 10/24/2018): 1.63
2ndQtr of 2018 (Reported on 07/25/2018): 1.51
1stQtr of 2018 (Reported on 04/25/2018): 1.37

The dividend per share is currently 0.66, which is a dividend yield of 0.66%. Also, the payout ratio is 10.66%, therefore the dividend is safe according to our calculations.

Base on our calculations, the intrinsic value per share is 99.49, which means it may be overvalued by -0.45%.

Indicators to Watch:

The current calculated beta is 1.21.

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Fundamental Indicators:

Based on last reported financials, the company’s return on equity is 38.16%, return on assets is 20.45%, profit margin is 5.79%, price-to-sales is 0.86 and price-to-book is 5.34.

Company Scores:

All scores are out of six:
 2  :Valuation Score
 6  :Past Performance Score
 6  :Financial Strength Score
 1  :Future Growth Score
 0  :Dividend Score
 3  :Overall Score

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