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La-z-boy Inc
La-z-boy Inc (LZB) is listed on NYSE and classified in Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances, part of the Consumer Cyclical sector. It is headquartered in Monroe, United States and has 10,200 employees. The company is worth $1.22B and trades at 15.4x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 17.7x. Revenue was $2.13B in fiscal 2026, up 0.8% from the year before. Net income was $101.99M. The share price is 32.3% below its 52-week high of $44.90. It pays a dividend yielding 3.19%, and has raised its annual dividend for 5 years in a row in our records. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $21.49M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 1 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.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -9.9% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,018.60▲ +1.9%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $30.07 | $37.27 | $43.57 | $36.92 | $22.82 | $36.31 | $39.84 | $31.48 | $27.71 | $31.20 | $31.05 | $24.42 | $26.84 | $31.00 | $14.15 | $11.90 | $9.02 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 1.4% a year plus a 3.2% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 17.7 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 16.6 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 1.4% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 10.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 4.3% a year against a 10.2% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Cyclical, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SGSweetgreen, Inc. | $10.22 | 113.6x | 2.6x | 0.00% | 3.07% | $1.22B |
| XPELXPEL, Inc. | $43.81 | 22.1x | 3.9x | 0.00% | 19.37% | $1.21B |
| MYEMyers Industries Inc | $32.83 | 24.3x | 4.0x | 1.64% | 17.15% | $1.24B |
| CRICarters Inc | $33.93 |
| 16.6x |
| 12.2x |
| 15.9x |
| 15.4x |
| 10.6x |
| 6.7x |
| 15.8x |
| 24.0x |
| 21.9x |
| 16.6x |
| 18.0x |
| 20.0x |
| 18.2x |
| 26.3x |
| 36.5x |
| 8.6x |
| 26.4x |
| 14.5x |
| P/S | 0.8x | 0.6x | 0.7x | 0.9x | 0.7x | 0.4x | 0.9x | 1.1x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 1.0x | 1.0x | 0.9x | 1.0x | 1.3x | 0.6x | 0.5x | 0.4x |
| P/B | 2.1x | 1.1x | 1.5x | 1.8x | 1.7x | 1.2x | 2.1x | 2.6x | 2.2x | 2.1x | 2.6x | 2.8x | 2.4x | 2.7x | 3.3x | 1.7x | 1.7x | 1.4x |
| EPS | $2.47 | $2.35 | $2.83 | $3.48 | $3.39 | $2.30 | $1.66 | $1.44 | $1.67 | $1.73 | $1.55 | $1.34 | $1.02 | $0.85 | $1.64 | $0.45 | $0.62 |
| Dividend yield | 1.68% | 2.41% | 2.42% | 1.88% | 2.02% | 2.97% | 1.69% | 0.88% | 1.68% | 1.77% | 1.44% | 1.32% | 1.39% | 0.97% | 0.58% | 0.28% | — | — |
| Payout | 26.01% | 29.39% | 38.38% | 28.98% | 21.44% | 19.97% | 26.74% | 21.08% | 36.81% | 29.34% | 26.01% | 26.45% | 25.37% | 25.49% | 21.18% | 2.44% | — | — |
| Profit margin | 4.97% | 4.80% | 4.72% | 5.99% | 6.41% | 6.37% | 6.14% | 4.55% | 3.93% | 5.11% | 5.65% | 5.20% | 4.97% | 4.06% | 3.64% | 7.54% | 2.03% | 2.77% |
| ROE | 12.23% | 9.71% | 9.75% | 12.23% | 16.00% | 18.50% | 13.76% | 11.06% | 10.05% | 13.21% | 14.57% | 14.48% | 13.50% | 10.55% | 9.57% | 19.91% | 6.66% | 9.53% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
7 methods answered, across 4 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+19.2% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 1.2x |
| 2.95% |
| 20.74% |
| $1.25B |
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