LPL Financial Holdings Inc.
At today's price, LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA) is priced for +16.7% earnings growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• LPL is an advisor-recruiting and asset-gathering platform, not a balance-sheet financial: it earns fees on $2.34 trillion of advisory and brokerage assets, which grew from $1.79 trillion a year earlier on organic recruiting and the Commonwealth acquisition [Source: LPL Q1 FY2026 results, April 2026]. • The biggest risk is the premium multiple meeting a slowdown: conservative earnings and book-value methods value the stock near $120 to $160, well below the price, so the bet depends on continued
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747 institutional managers reported holding LPLA in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 79 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Dodge & Cox, among others. On the short side, 3.8M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (3.7 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
LPLA's share count is about flat over the past five years ($1.80B of repurchases, offset by issuance). It pays a dividend, and has for 14 years running; the current rate is $1.20 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $253.66M in dividends and $755.00M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at LPLA over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 21 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
LPLA's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-02 | -3.9% | +0.2% |
| 2023-11-01 | +2.6% | +6.5% |
| 2024-02-22 | -0.6% | +1.1% |
| 2024-05-03 | -3.0% | +1.9% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
LPLA's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-15 (items 5.03, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-04-30 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-01-29 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-01-08 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2025-10-30 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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