Daily Stock Analysis: Leggett & Platt Inc
Leggett & Platt Inc has the ticker symbol LEG and is a member of the Consumer Cyclical sector as furniture fixtures and appliances company. It has good value and strong fundamental scores on its track record but is now 19.25% over-priced based on its historic valuation. This is my second report of LEG in Vista. I previously talked about Leggett & Platt Inc on February 17, three weeks ago.
Leggett & Platt Inc has found favor with investors lately. Half of the 4 analysts following LEG rate it a outperform the others say hold, a consensus outperforms.
Leggett & Platt designs and produces engineered components and products found in homes, offices, retail stores, automobiles, and commercial aircraft.
It operates its business through four segments: residential products, furniture products, industrial products, and specialized products. Its products include components and machinery, steel infrastructure, furniture and components, and many others.
The company operates all around the world, with the residential products and specialized products segments contributing heavily to the company’s revenue.
Leggett & Platt, Incorporated was founded in 1883 and is based in Carthage, Missouri.
Three key data points gauge dividend equities or funds like Leggett & Platt Inc:
(1) Price
(2) Dividends
(3) Returns
Those three basic keys best tell whether a company has made, is making, and will make money.
LEG Price
Leggett's price per share closed at $47.34 Friday. A year ago its price was $37.76. Price per share has more than recovered from the Covid recession, being more than 25% above last year's mark. (Price is up $5.17 since I reported on it three weeks ago.)
If Leggett & Platt Inc stock trades in the range of $22 to $52 this year, its recent $47.34 price might rise by $2.66 to reach $50.00 by March 8, 2022. My estimate is higher than that of the four broker analyst projections.
LEG Dividends
Leggett & Platt Inc's most recently declared quarterly dividend was $0.40 and is payable April 15th. Dividends are estimated to total $1.60 per share annually and yield 3.38% at Friday's $47.34 closing price. It has paid annually increasing dividends for forty-nine years.
LEG Returns
Adding the $1.68 annual LEG anticipated dividend to my $2.66 price upside shows a $4.34 potential gross gain, per share, to be reduced by any costs to trade the shares.
Put little under $1,000.00 today in Leggett & Platt Inc at $47.34 per share and we'd buy 21 shares of LEG stock.
A $10 broker fee (if charged) would be paid half at purchase and half at a sale and might cost us about $0.48 per share.
Subtract that maybe $0.48 brokerage cost from my estimated $4.34 gross gain per share results in a net gain of $3.86 X 21 shares = $81.06 for an 8.1% net gain on a $994.14 investment.
Leggett & Platt Inc shows a possible 8.1% net gain including a 3.38% dividend yield.
Over the next year at this time, a $1000 investment could generate $33.80 in cash dividends. And a single share bought at yesterday's closing price was over $47.00! So, if LEG is your kind of diverse manufacturing investment, LEG price well above dividend income from $1,000 invested. This augurs to wait and see the price below $40 before buying.
All of the estimates above are speculation based on the past history of Leggett & Platt Inc. Only time and money invested in this stock will determine its worth.
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