Liquidity Services stock analysis
Liquidity Services (L1S) Stock Price & Analysis
L1S Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- EUR 38.80 - EUR 39.80
- 52-Week Range
- EUR 18.90 - EUR 41.20
- Previous Close
- EUR 38.80
- Volume
- N/A
- Average Volume (3M)
- 0
- Market Cap
- EUR 1.29B
- Enterprise Value
- EUR 1.07B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- EUR 231.10M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- EUR 13.60M
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 43.4
- Beta
- 0.36
- Next Earnings
- Nov 19, 2026 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 0.4
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- N/A
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Revenue And Marketplace Growth
Liquidity Services has expanded revenue substantially while continuing to grow marketplace volume, indicating broader adoption of its surplus-asset network. Sustained growth across the business can support operating scale, reinforce customer relationships, and provide a durable foundation for future earnings.
Strong Cash Generation And Low Leverage
Robust cash generation and a debt-free balance sheet give Liquidity Services meaningful financial flexibility. This supports investment in technology and acquisitions, reduces exposure to financing pressure, and improves resilience while the company continues expanding its marketplace and service operations.
Strategic Expansion Into Collectibles
The Auction Holdings acquisition expands Liquidity Services into a large adjacent category and adds established auction technology platforms, brands, auction-house relationships and collector reach. Management expects the transaction to be accretive in FY27, creating a potential multi-year growth and cross-selling opportunity.
Bears Say
Gross Margin Compression
The sustained reduction in gross margin shows that revenue growth has not translated fully into comparable profitability. A tougher pricing or business mix environment, or higher cost pressure, could limit operating leverage and make future earnings growth more dependent on continued volume expansion.
Cash-Flow Volatility
Although Liquidity Services generates strong cash, historical fluctuations indicate that working-capital or transaction timing can materially affect reported results. This variability may complicate planning, reduce the predictability of internally funded investment, and create uneven cash conversion across periods.
Acquisition Integration And Legacy Obligations
Integrating a major auction technology provider introduces execution and legacy-obligation risk even though the acquisition is strategically attractive. Escrow and indemnification arrangements may require management attention and capital, while combining platforms, teams and customer relationships could delay expected synergies.
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Company Description
Liquidity Services
Liquidity Services, Inc. delivers comprehensive e-commerce solutions, featuring online marketplaces, self-service auction listing tools, and a variety of support services. The company's operations are structured into four distinct segments: Retail Supply Chain Group, Capital Assets Group, GovDeals, and Machinio. Among its key platforms, liquidation.com empowers corporations to efficiently divest surplus and salvaged consumer goods and retail capital assets. The GovDeals marketplace offers a direct listing service, enabling state and local government agencies, as well as commercial enterprises in the United States and Canada, to sell their own excess and salvaged property. Complementing these, AllSurplus functions as a centralized gateway, uniting a global network of buyers with assets sourced from across all the company's diverse marketplaces. Moreover, Liquidity Services operates marketplaces that facilitate the sale of manufacturing surplus, salvaged capital equipment, and scrap materials for corporations spanning North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa. Clients can also leverage an extensive suite of services, including inventory surplus management, asset appraisal, sales execution, marketing, returns processing, asset recovery, and broader e-commerce assistance. The company further maintains a global search engine platform dedicated to listings of pre-owned equipment across vital sectors such as construction, machine tools, transportation, printing, and agriculture. Its product offerings are vast, covering industry verticals like consumer electronics, general merchandise, apparel, scientific instruments, aerospace components, technology hardware, real estate, energy apparatus, industrial capital machinery, heavy equipment, fleet and transportation vehicles, and specialized machinery. Established in 1999, Liquidity Services, Inc. maintains its corporate headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland.
- Sector
- Consumercyclical
- Industry
- Specialty Retail
- CEO
- William Paul Angrick
- Employees
- 818
- Website
- www.liquidityservices.com
- Address
- 6931 Arlington Road, Bethesda, MD, 20814, US
Liquidity Services (L1S) Earnings & Revenues
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L1S Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call reported broad-based operational momentum: record GMV, double-digit growth in key profitability metrics (GAAP EPS +39% YoY, adjusted EBITDA +30% YoY), strong retail and GovDeals performance, CAG profitability improvement despite timing-driven GMV softness, and material ARR growth at Machinio. Challenges were limited to CAG project timing reducing GMV modestly, a decline in auction participants (likely mix-driven), an expected sequential retail GMV dip in Q4, and a higher projected tax rate. Overall, positives substantially outweigh these contained issues.
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Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 13 | 5 | 4 |
| Technical Analysis | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Moving Averages | 8 | 0 | 4 |








