Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) Releases Earnings Results

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 return on equity of 20.94% and a net margin of 6.37%. Liquidity Services updated its Q2 2025 guidance to 0.270-0.350 EPS.

Liquidity Services Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ LQDT opened at $32.71 on Friday. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $32.32 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $25.98. The company has a market capitalization of $1.01 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 43.61 and a beta of 1.36. Liquidity Services has a fifty-two week low of $13.99 and a fifty-two week high of $39.72.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research analysts have commented on the company. Craig Hallum lifted 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. Barrington Research reiterated an “outperform” rating and set a $40.00 price target on shares of Liquidity Services in a research note on Monday, February 3rd. Finally, StockNews.com cut shares of Liquidity Services from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Liquidity Services news, Director Edward Kolodzieski sold 2,000 shares of Liquidity Services stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, December 31st. The shares were sold at an average price of $32.90, for a total transaction of $65,800.00. Following the transaction, the director now 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 document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, Director Jaime Mateus-Tique sold 50,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $33.22, for a total transaction of $1,661,000.00. Following the sale, the director now directly owns 103,660 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,443,585.20. This trade represents a 32.54 % 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 in the last quarter. Corporate insiders own 28.40% of the company’s stock.

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.