Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) Announces Earnings Results, Beats Estimates By $0.06 EPS

Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday. The business services provider reported $0.28 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates 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 Down 1.2 %

NASDAQ:LQDT opened at $32.71 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $1.01 billion, a PE ratio of 43.61 and a beta of 1.36. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $32.32 and a 200 day moving average price of $25.98. Liquidity Services has a 12-month low of $13.99 and a 12-month high of $39.72.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities analysts have recently issued reports on LQDT shares. StockNews.com downgraded shares of Liquidity Services from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday. Craig Hallum raised their target price on Liquidity Services from $28.00 to $37.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, December 13th. Finally, Barrington Research reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $40.00 price objective on shares of Liquidity Services in a research note on Monday, February 3rd.

Insider Buying and Selling at Liquidity Services

In other news, CFO Jorge Celaya sold 16,540 shares of Liquidity Services stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $34.10, for a total value of $564,014.00. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now owns 33,608 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,146,032.80. The trade was a 32.98 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, EVP John Daunt sold 4,546 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $31.68, for a total transaction of $144,017.28. Following the transaction, the executive vice president now directly owns 43,309 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,372,029.12. This represents a 9.50 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 101,668 shares of company stock worth $3,331,558 over the last ninety days. Corporate insiders own 28.40% of the company’s stock.

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.