LKQ (LKQ1) Stock Price & Analysis
LKQ1 Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- EUR 15.92 - EUR 16.49
- 52-Week Range
- EUR 15.31 - EUR 29.40
- Previous Close
- EUR 15.87
- Volume
- 0
- Average Volume (3M)
- 205
- Market Cap
- EUR 4.18B
- Enterprise Value
- EUR 10.56B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- EUR 319.00M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- EUR 5.08B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 18.6
- Beta
- 0.55
- Next Earnings
- Feb 25, 2027 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 0.36
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 6.50%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Scale And Market Position
LKQ’s scale, leading positions, and global distribution network support broad product availability and efficient service to repair customers. These capabilities can reinforce customer retention, purchasing leverage, and competitive resilience across North America and Europe over the next several quarters.
Cash Generation And Liquidity
Strong quarterly operating and free cash flow gives LKQ internal funding for operations, technology investments, debt service, and shareholder returns. Combined with substantial liquidity, this cash generation provides flexibility while management works through European execution problems.
North American Margin Management
North America is showing an ability to protect and improve profitability despite a 2.4% organic revenue decline. Strategic pricing deployment, lower SG&A, and stable gross-margin execution provide a durable operational base and partially offset weakness elsewhere.
Bears Say
European Revenue And Margin Deterioration
Europe’s simultaneous revenue decline, gross-margin contraction, and sharply lower EBITDA margin indicate more than a temporary volume issue. Operational, assortment, and service problems are weakening earnings power and could require sustained investment before profitability normalizes.
Weakening Profitability Trend
The multi-year reduction in revenue growth and operating margins shows that LKQ’s earnings power has weakened materially from prior periods. Lower profitability reduces reinvestment capacity and makes future results more sensitive to execution, mix, and cost pressures.
Guidance Withdrawal And Leadership Transition
Withdrawing guidance and changing senior leadership signal that management cannot yet establish reliable near-term operating visibility. The transition may enable a reset, but it also creates execution risk while the incoming team assesses Europe, strategy, and capital allocation.
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Company Description
LKQ
LKQ Corporation, established in 1998 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, specializes in distributing replacement parts and systems essential for vehicle repair and maintenance. Its operations are structured across three primary segments: North America, Europe, and Specialty. The company's extensive product catalog includes a wide array of items for collision repair, such as bumper covers, automotive body panels, lighting, and automotive glass products like windshields. It also supplies salvaged mechanical and collision components, including engines, transmissions, door assemblies, and sheet metal parts like hoods, fenders, and trunk lids, alongside scrap metal for recycling. For mechanical repairs, the company offers a comprehensive range of products, including brake components (pads, discs, sensors), clutches, steering and suspension systems, filters, various automotive fluids, and electrical items such as spark plugs and batteries. Additionally, its Specialty offerings encompass recreational vehicle appliances and air conditioners, towing hitches, truck bed covers, vehicle protection products, cargo management solutions, wheels, tires, and specialized suspension products. LKQ caters to a broad customer base, including collision and mechanical repair shops, new and used car dealerships, and individual retail consumers. Its market presence spans numerous countries, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Taiwan, and various other European nations.
- Sector
- Consumercyclical
- Industry
- Auto - Parts
- CEO
- Justin L. Jude
- Employees
- 44,000
- Website
- www.lkqcorp.com
- Address
- 5846 Crossings Blvd, Antioch, TN, 37013, US
LKQ (LKQ1) Earnings & Revenues
LKQ1 Company Deck
LKQ1 Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentNegative
The call included meaningful strengths in North American margins, alternative-part utilization, specialty revenue growth, cash flow, liquidity, and the stated recovery of German operational metrics. However, these positives were outweighed by the consolidated revenue and earnings declines, substantial European revenue and EBITDA deterioration, customer and market-share losses, impairment charges, leadership changes, and the suspension of full-year guidance. Management acknowledged the issues and outlined corrective actions, but the overall tone was focused on stabilization and recovery from significant current challenges.
View all DE:LKQ1 earnings summariesLKQ1 Net sales Breakdown
- 40.15% Wholesale - North America
- 44.63% Europe
- 11.54% Specialty
- 3.71% Self Service
- -0.03% Eliminations
LKQ1 Stock 12 Month Forecast
Average Price Target
Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 6 | 4 | 12 |
| Technical Analysis | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Moving Averages | 2 | 0 | 10 |