Gardner Dudley Insider Sell
Company insider, Gardner Dudley, Pres - Capital Assets Group of Liquidity Services Inc sold a total of 8,740 shares of the company, calculated based on $7.2 for every share. A Form 4 freely accessible here disclosed this trade activity. It was disclosed on 02-10-2015 and filled with (SEC). Currently, he possess 17,368 shares or 0.06% of Liquidity Services Inc’s total market capitalization.
Liquidity Services Inc Sentiment and Fundamentals
According to numbers from five professional security analysts, the Company will have EPS of $0.60 and forward price-earnings ratio of 12.68 this year. The analysts also expect more than -21.30% earnings for each share growth rate year over year.
Liquidity Services Inc’s share is in a bearish trend, decreasing around 6.54% over the last 200 days. OctaFinance’s time-momentum model, coupled with Gardner’s new stock deal, certainly helps us to rate this stock a SELL.
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Institutional Ownership
Information from Q2 2015 13F SEC filings, show 129 hedge funds had shares of Liquidity Services Inc. Octafinance tracked institutional players have traditionally had a high interest in this company, and that was also the case in the last quarter. The institutional ownership was 74.58% of the stock’s outstanding shares. They increased by 3.15 million the total shares they hold. As of that quarter these hedge funds owned 22.39 million shares. There were 15 funds that created new positions and 55 funds that added to their positions. A total of 15 funds closed their positions in Liquidity Services Inc and 41 reduced their holdings.
Adams Asset Advisors Llc had the greatest investment with ownership of 81,500 shares as of Q2 2015 for 0.15% of the fund’s portfolio. Scout Investments Inc. is another bullish player owning 147,625 shares of the company or 0.03% of their stocks portfolio. Moreover The New York-based fund Robotti Robert have 2.68% of their stock portfolio invested in the company’s market cap for 503,034 shares. The Delaware-based fund Clifton Park Capital Management Llc revealed it had purchased a stake worth 1.04% of the fund’s stock portfolio in Liquidity Services Inc. The Delaware-based fund Cortland Advisers Llc is also upbeat about the publicly listed company, owning 1.48 million shares or 1.04% of their stock portfolio.
Liquidity Services NASDAQ:LQDT Company Profile
Liquidity Services, Inc., is an auction marketplace for surplus and salvage assets. The Company enables buyers and sellers to transact in an automated online auction environment offering over 500 product categories. The Company’s marketplaces provide professional buyers access to a global, organized supply of surplus and salvage assets presented with digital images and other relevant product information. It organizes its products into categories across industry verticals, such as consumer electronics, general merchandise, apparel, scientific equipment, aerospace parts and equipment, technology hardware and specialty equipment. It’s online auction marketplaces are www.liquidation.com, www.govliquidation.com, www.govdeals.com and www.liquibiz.com. It also operates a wholesale industry portal, www.goWholesale.com that connects advertisers with buyers seeking products for resale and related business services. In July 2012, the Company acquired GoIndustry-DoveBid plc.
Company Website: Liquidity Services
Liquidity Services Inc was created in Delaware on 1999-11-15. Now its market value is: $227.60 million and it has 31.18 million shares outstanding. Today it has 74.29% shareholders and the institutional ownership stands at 74.29%. The firm has 1049 employees. The stock closed at $7.58 yesterday and it had average 2 days volume of 157536 shares. It is up from the 30 days average shares volume of 131250. Liquidity Services Inc has a 250 days low of $6.65 and a one year high of $13.22. The current price is below the 200 days SMA. Liquidity Services Inc last issued its quarterly earnings information on 08/06/2015. The company reported 0.05 EPS for the quarter, above the consensus estimate of 0.01 by 0.04. The company had a revenue of 89.75 million for 6/30/2015 and 102.94 million for 3/31/2015. Therefore, the revenue was -13,197,000 down.
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* These restricted shares will vest - if at all - based on the Issuer’s achievement of certain financial milestones.
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