Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) Issues Earnings Results

Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday. The business services provider reported $0.28 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.22 by $0.06, Zacks reports. Liquidity Services had a net margin of 5.50% and a return on equity of 18.99%. Liquidity Services updated its Q2 2025 guidance to 0.270-0.350 EPS.

Liquidity Services Trading Up 8.2 %

NASDAQ:LQDT traded up $2.61 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $34.46. The company had a trading volume of 290,517 shares, compared to its average volume of 263,718. Liquidity Services has a 1 year low of $13.99 and a 1 year high of $39.72. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $32.03 and a 200-day simple moving average of $25.85. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.06 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 54.70 and a beta of 1.36.

Insider Activity

In related news, Director Edward Kolodzieski sold 2,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 31st. The stock was sold at an average price of $32.90, for a total value of $65,800.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 15,229 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $501,034.10. The trade was a 11.61 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, CFO Jorge Celaya sold 16,540 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, December 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $34.10, for a total transaction of $564,014.00. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now owns 33,608 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,146,032.80. The trade was a 32.98 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 101,668 shares of company stock worth $3,331,558. 28.40% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of analysts have recently commented on LQDT shares. Craig Hallum upped their price objective on Liquidity Services from $28.00 to $37.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, December 13th. Barrington Research restated an “outperform” rating and issued a $40.00 price objective on shares of Liquidity Services in a report on Monday. Finally, StockNews.com upgraded Liquidity Services from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Saturday, December 21st.

Liquidity Services Company Profile

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.