Houlihan Lokey (HLI) Stock Price, News & Analysis

2 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Houlihan Lokey in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" HLI shares.
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2 brokers have issued 12-month price objectives for Houlihan Lokey's shares. Their HLI share price targets range from $101.00 to $142.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $123.33 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.6%.
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Houlihan Lokey's stock was trading at $119.91 at the beginning of the year. Since then, HLI stock has increased by 4.6% and is now trading at $125.38.
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Houlihan Lokey saw a increase in short interest in January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,320,000 shares, an increase of 50.6% from the December 31st total of 1,540,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 509,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.6 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 14th 2024.
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Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 1st. The financial services provider reported $1.22 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.12 by $0.10. The financial services provider earned $511.30 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $493.02 million. Houlihan Lokey had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 18.06% and a net margin of 14.90%. Houlihan Lokey's revenue for the quarter was up 12.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.14 EPS.

Houlihan Lokey announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 1st. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 1st will be given a dividend of $0.55 per share on Friday, March 15th. This represents a $2.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.75%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 29th.
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Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.77%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 9 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 54.59%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, HLI will have a dividend payout ratio of 38.06% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) stock in their portfolio include ALPS O'Shares U.S. Small-Cap Quality Dividend ETF (OUSM), Argent Mid Cap ETF (AMID), iShares U.S. Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF (IAI), Invesco Dorsey Wright Financial Momentum ETF (PFI), SPDR S&P Capital Markets ETF (KCE), First Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Dividend ETF (DDIV), AB US Low Volatility Equity ETF (LOWV) and Principal U.S. Small-Cap Multi-Factor ETF (PSC).

77 employees have rated Houlihan Lokey Chief Executive Officer Scott Beiser on Glassdoor.com. Scott Beiser has an approval rating of 87% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Houlihan Lokey investors own include Energy Transfer (ET), AT&T (T), CVS Health (CVS), Home Depot (HD), Pfizer (PFE), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Verizon Communications (VZ), Alibaba Group (BABA) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

(HLI) raised $301 million in an initial public offering on Thursday, August 13th 2015. The company issued 13,100,000 shares at a price of $22.00-$24.00 per share. BofA Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs served as the underwriters for the IPO and UBS Investment Bank, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (A Stifel Company), Houlihan Lokey, Sandler O'Neill + Partners and JMP Securities were co-managers.

Houlihan Lokey's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.92%), Natixis Advisors L.P. (0.79%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.62%), Nordea Investment Management AB (0.62%), Brown Advisory Inc. (0.59%) and Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.31%). Insiders that own company stock include Christopher M Crain, Irwin Gold, J Lindsey Alley, Paul Andrew Zuber, Robert A Schriesheim, Robert A Schriesheim, Scott Joseph Adelson and Scott L Beiser.
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Shares of HLI stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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