Loar Holdings Inc. (NYSE:LOAR) Receives $94.75 Consensus Target Price from Analysts

Shares of Loar Holdings Inc. (NYSE:LOAR) have received an average rating of “Buy” from the six ratings firms that are covering the company, Marketbeat Ratings reports. One analyst has rated the stock with a hold recommendation, four have given a buy recommendation and one has issued a strong buy recommendation on the company. The average twelve-month target price among brokers that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $90.75.

LOAR has been the topic of a number of recent research reports. Wall Street Zen raised Loar from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Saturday, August 16th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Loar in a report on Monday, December 8th. The Goldman Sachs Group started coverage on shares of Loar in a report on Tuesday, November 25th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $91.00 price objective for the company. Morgan Stanley cut their price objective on shares of Loar from $100.00 to $97.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, November 13th. Finally, Citigroup initiated coverage on shares of Loar in a report on Thursday. They issued a “buy” rating and a $83.00 target price on the stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in LOAR. Rakuten Securities Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Loar in the 2nd quarter valued at $27,000. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. raised its holdings in Loar by 390.1% in the 2nd quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 348 shares of the company’s stock valued at $30,000 after buying an additional 277 shares during the period. Farther Finance Advisors LLC lifted its position in Loar by 8,383.3% in the third quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC now owns 509 shares of the company’s stock valued at $41,000 after buying an additional 503 shares during the last quarter. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd lifted its position in Loar by 5,286.7% in the first quarter. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd now owns 808 shares of the company’s stock valued at $57,000 after buying an additional 793 shares during the last quarter. Finally, KBC Group NV purchased a new position in Loar during the second quarter worth about $82,000.

Loar Stock Down 2.0%

LOAR stock opened at $69.92 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 5.92, a quick ratio of 3.81 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.24. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $73.52 and a two-hundred day moving average of $76.44. Loar has a 12 month low of $62.10 and a 12 month high of $99.67. The company has a market cap of $6.55 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 105.93 and a beta of 0.35.

Loar (NYSE:LOAR) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, November 12th. The company reported $0.35 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.22 by $0.13. The business had revenue of $126.75 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $126.80 million. Loar had a return on equity of 6.45% and a net margin of 13.33%.The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 22.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.15 EPS. Loar has set its FY 2026 guidance at 0.980-1.03 EPS and its FY 2025 guidance at 0.930-0.980 EPS. As a group, analysts forecast that Loar will post 0.28 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Loar Company Profile

Loar Holdings Inc, through its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets aerospace and defense components for aircraft, and aerospace and defense systems in the United States and internationally. It offers products in various categories, which include airframe components, structural components, avionics, composites, braking system components, de-ice and ice protection, electro-mechanical, engineered materials, flight controls, fluid and motion controls, environmental, metal forming, molded components, and restraints and safety devices.