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LAMR
Lamar Advertising Co/new
NASDAQ· Real Estate· REIT - Specialty· CUSIP 512816109
$157.51+1.57%Price as of Oct 23, 00:45 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Lamar Advertising Co/new (LAMR) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in REIT - Specialty, part of the Real Estate sector. It is headquartered in Baton Rouge, United States and has 3,500 employees. The company is worth $16B and trades at 28.7x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 22.1x. Revenue was $2.27B in fiscal 2025, up 2.7% from the year before. Net income was $587.15M. The share price is 5.3% below its 52-week high of $166.33. It pays a dividend yielding 4.19%. 8 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q3 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $222.01M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $16B
- P/E
- 28.7x
- Forward P/E
- 24.3x
- P/B
- 16.3x
- Dividend yield
- 4.19%
- Payout
- 120.44%
- EPS
- $5.48
- ROE
- 59.43%
- Profit margin
- 23.91%
- Revenue growth
- +6.50%
- Beta
- 1.23
- 52-week high
- $166.33
- 52-week low
- $114.45
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
- Cliff AsnessAddedAQR Capital Management · Q2 2026$222.01M1.43M shares · 0.1% of portfolio
- John ArmitageReducedEgerton Capital · Q3 2026$125.03M867.59K shares · 1.3% of portfolio
- Tom GaynerHeldMarkel Group · Q2 2026$30.1M193K shares · 0.2% of portfolio
- Two SigmaReducedTwo Sigma Investments · Q2 2026$27.6M176.97K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
- Israel EnglanderNew positionMillennium Management · Q2 2026$16.07M103K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
- Renaissance TechnologiesHeldRenaissance Technologies · Q2 2026$15.24M97.71K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Ken GriffinHeldCitadel Advisors · Q2 2026$13.11M84.08K shares · 0.0% of portfolio- Lansdowne PartnersHeldLansdowne Partners (UK) · Q2 2026$285.13K1.83K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Price over time
▲ +37.4% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,703.55▲ +70.4%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $126.58 | $121.74 | $106.28 | $94.40 | $121.30 | $83.22 | $89.26 | $69.18 | $74.24 | $67.24 | $59.98 | $53.64 | $52.25 | $38.75 | $27.50 | $39.84 | $31.09 | $12.56 | |
| P/E | 22.5x | 21.9x | 34.6x | 21.9x | 21.9x | 31.7x | 34.5x | 24.1x | 22.5x | 23.0x | 22.0x | 22.1x | 20.2x | 124.4x | 484.4x | 392.9x | — | — | 628.0x |
| P/S | 5.1x | 5.7x | 5.7x | 5.1x | 4.7x | 6.9x | 5.4x | 5.1x | 4.2x | 4.7x | 4.4x | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| P/B | 6.8x | 12.6x | 11.9x | 8.9x | 8.0x | 10.1x | 7.0x | 7.6x | 6.1x | 6.6x | 6.1x | 5.7x | 5.2x | 5.3x | 4.2x | 3095.6x | 4543.8x | 3.4x | 1.3x |
| EPS | $5.77 | $3.52 | $4.85 | $4.31 | $3.83 | $2.41 | $3.71 | $3.08 | $3.23 | $3.05 | $2.72 | $2.66 | $0.42 | $0.08 | $0.07 | -$0.44 | -$0.64 | $0.02 | |
| Dividend yield | 4.61% | 5.10% | 4.64% | 4.70% | 5.30% | 3.30% | 3.00% | 4.30% | 5.28% | 4.47% | 4.49% | 4.58% | 4.66% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | 103.62% | 111.79% | 160.51% | 103.09% | 116.01% | 104.44% | 103.73% | 103.50% | 118.51% | 102.79% | 99.02% | 101.10% | 93.98% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 20.92% | 25.91% | 16.40% | 23.48% | 21.59% | 21.71% | 15.51% | 21.22% | 18.76% | 20.61% | 19.92% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| ROE | 26.40% | 57.30% | 34.53% | 40.74% | 36.70% | 31.89% | 20.24% | 31.53% | 26.97% | 28.79% | 27.94% | 25.72% | 25.83% | 4.30% | 0.92% | 0.83% | -4.96% | -6.98% | 0.25% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$34.53
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$127.51
Earnings growing 19.1% a year plus a 4.2% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$121.12
Median P/E of 22.1 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$123.09
Median P/E of 22.5 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
$196.85
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Operating
$119.19
Sector median of 14.1x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividends
$324.00
Dividend growing 8.0% a year against a 10.2% required return, from the stock’s beta.
How the average is calculated
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
Earnings $101.56 (avg. of 4)+Cash flow $196.85+Operating $119.19+Dividends $324.00÷ 4 =$185.40
$185.40
7 methods answered, across 4 families.
$139.05
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
$157.51
+17.7% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Real Estate, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KIMKimco Realty Corp | $23.59 | 26.8x | 1.5x | 4.75% | 5.81% | $15.82B |
| INVHInvitation Homes Inc. | $27.53 | 25.3x | 1.8x | 4.36% | 7.05% | $16.26B |
| SUISun Communities Inc | $119.86 | 88.1x | 2.7x | 3.74% | 1.72% | $15.14B |
| HSTHost Hotels & Resorts Inc | $24.87 | 16.8x | 2.7x | 6.71% | 15.56% | $17.28B |
| OHIOmega Healthcare Investors Inc | $46.30 | 15.9x | 2.6x | 5.87% | 16.53% | $14.78B |
| WPCW. P. Carey Inc. | $64.54 | 22.1x | 1.7x | 5.89% | 7.78% | $14.7B |
About the company
- 3,500
- Baton Rouge, United States