Consumer Cyclical
Liquidity Services, Inc.(LQDT)
Live Price
Offline$37.89
+3.69% today
1Y Change
+67.96%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 β Jun 24, 2026
- Market Cap
- $1.10B
- Revenue Growth
- +31.2%
- EPS Growth
- +37.9%
- Dividend Yield
- 0.0%
Coverage: 250 bars Β· Jun 25, 2025 β Jun 24, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Liquidity Services, Inc. (LQDT) is a Consumer Cyclical stock with a market cap of $1.10B and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $37.89 and up 68.0% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 β Jun 24, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +31.2%, EPS growth of +37.9%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +31.2%, EPS +37.9%, free cash flow -3.8% with operating margin 7.9% and ROIC 11.5%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 36.7 and price/sales 2.3. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a higher-growth but lower-margin setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines LQDT price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Cyclical peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Above sector median
+31.2% vs +7.5% peer median
Operating Margin
Near sector median
+7.9% vs +8.4% peer median
P/E
Above sector median
36.7 vs 18.1 peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on May 14, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating story is still moving forward
Revenue is running at +31.2% and EPS at +37.9%, with operating margin around 7.9%.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged +3.8% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 2 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS Ξ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 May 14, 2026 | β | -1.1% | +2.6% | +13.8% |
2026 Feb 5, 2026 | +25.8% | -1.3% | -8.1% | -3.0% |
2025 Nov 20, 2025 | +27.6% | +8.8% | +16.8% | +22.7% |
Benchmark Edge
LQDT vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
LQDT
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Normalized return
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
LQDT Max Drawdown
-21.53%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for LQDT and SPY.
Company Overview
Liquidity Services, Inc.
NASDAQ Global Select
Liquidity Services, Inc. provides e-commerce marketplaces, self-directed auction listing tools, and value-added services. It operates through four segments: Retail Supply Chain Group, Capital Assets Group, GovDeals, and Machinio. The company's marketplaces include liquidation.com that enable corporations to sell surplus and salvage consumer goods and retail capital assets; GovDeals marketplace, which provides self-directed service solutions in which sellers list their own assets that enables local and state government entities, and commercial businesses located in the United States and Canada to sell surplus and salvage assets; and AllSurplus, a centralized marketplace that connects global buyer base with assets from across the network of marketplaces in a single destination. It also provides marketplace for corporations located in the North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa to sell manufacturing surplus, salvage capital assets, and scrap material, as well as offers a suite of services, including surplus management, asset valuation, asset sales, marketing, returns management, asset recovery, and ecommerce services. In addition, the company operates a global search engine platform for listing used equipment for sale in the construction, machine tool, transportation, printing, and agriculture sectors. It offers products from industry verticals, such as consumer electronics, general merchandise, apparel, scientific equipment, aerospace parts and equipment, technology hardware, real estate, energy equipment, industrial capital assets, heavy equipment, fleet and transportation equipment, and specialty equipment. Liquidity Services, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.
- Leadership
- William Paul Angrick
- IPO Date
- Feb 27, 2006
- Employees
- 781
- Street Address
- 6931 Arlington Road
- Mailing
- Bethesda, MD, 20814
- Region
- Bethesda, MD, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 202 467 6868
- Last Updated
- May 1, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 36.7
- EV/EBITDA
- 19.5
- Price/Sales
- 2.3
- Price/Book
- 5.1
Growth
- Revenue
- +31.2%
- EPS
- +37.9%
- Free Cash Flow
- -3.8%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 44.8%
- Operating Margin
- 7.9%
- Net Margin
- 6.3%
- ROE
- 14.5%
- ROIC
- 11.5%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.10
- Current Ratio
- 1.53
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
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