Insider buying last 90 days
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Liquidity Services (LQDT) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Oct 12 close
$43.39+0.26 (+0.6%)
Gekko Brief
AI summaryOct 12 closeThis week's news centers on Liquidity Services' $80 million acquisition of Auction Holdings, which adds three platforms — Invaluable, AuctionZip and RFC Auction Systems — reported to have processed over $500 million in gross merchandise sales in 2025. Separately, a GF Score of 67 accompanied a 4.0% share drop to $41.51 on 6 October, and the stock has also been the subject of a comparison piece against Waste Connections (WCN) covering earnings, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.
LQDT closes at $43.39, up 0.6%, sitting above both its 50-day ($42.21) and 200-day ($36.05) moving averages, with the shorter average above the longer one. The GekkoIndex reads 54.5, placing the stock in the Neutral zone, with a five-point change of -0.2. Gekko Fair Value stands at $44.72, putting the current price about 3% below that mark. The 52-week range spans $21.67 to $45.00, and the one-year return is 83.5%.
The next earnings date falls on 19 November 2026, 37 days out and beyond a typical 20-trading-day holding window. No insider, Congress or unusual options activity appears in the current window. Seasonality over five years shows the next 20 trading days averaging a 2.6% gain, rising in 2 of those years. Consensus among 2 covering firms carries a buy rating from both, with a consensus target of $51 and consensus upside of 17.5%. The gap to Gekko Fair Value bears watching.
Written by AI from the Oct 12, 2026 close and checked automatically against the figures on this page.
Liquidity Services price vs fair value
Close $43.39200-day averageGekko Fair Value $44.72
Liquidity Services quick facts
- Market cap
- $1.35B
- P/E ratio
- 41.3
- Forward P/E
- 24.6
- EPS, TTM
- $1.02
- Revenue, TTM
- $489.6M
- Profit margin
- 6.8%
- Dividend yield
- —
- Beta
- 1.04
- Volume
- 239,000 avg 257,486
- 1-year return
- +83.5%
- Typical daily move
- ±2.6%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±6.3%
- 50-day average
- $42.21
- 200-day average
- $36.05
- Next earnings
- Nov 19
- Shares outstanding
- 31.33M
Liquidity Services swing-trade checklist
Liquidity Services scores 2 supportive, 3 mixed and 0 headwinds across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
2 supportive3 mixed0 headwinds
- Trendsupportive
Above 50 and 200-day
Close $43.39 is above the 50-day ($42.21) and 200-day ($36.05) averages, and the 50-day is above the 200-day.
See the chart - GekkoIndexmixed
54.5, Neutral
Reading 54.5 is in the Neutral zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuemixed
3.0% below
Price is within 5% of Gekko Fair Value (3% below).
See fair value - Smart moneyno data
No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 38 days
Next report Nov 19, 2026, 38 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitymixed
+2.6% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +2.6% over 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
See seasonality
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Liquidity Services stock chart and price history
Liquidity Services closed at $43.39 on Oct 12, 2026, +83.5% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $21.67 to $45.00.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- +2.1%
- 3 months
- +11.5%
- 6 months
- +33.1%
- 1 year
- +83.5%
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About Liquidity Services
Liquidity Services runs online marketplaces where organizations can sell off surplus, returned, or salvaged goods rather than handling disposal themselves. It is best known for platforms such as liquidation.com, which lets companies offload excess consumer goods and retail equipment, and GovDeals, which allows state and local government bodies and businesses in the United States and Canada to list their own surplus property directly. A related site, AllSurplus, brings buyers from across its various marketplaces together in one place, while Machinio operates as a search platform for used equipment in fields like construction, machine tools, transportation, printing, and agriculture.
The company organizes its work into four segments: Retail Supply Chain Group, Capital Assets Group, GovDeals, and Machinio. Beyond hosting listings, it provides services such as managing surplus inventory, appraising assets, handling returns, executing sales, marketing goods, and recovering value from unused equipment. Its clients include corporations and government agencies across North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa, dealing in goods ranging from electronics and apparel to aerospace parts, heavy machinery, vehicles, and energy equipment.
Founded in 1999, Liquidity Services is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Its shares are listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker LQDT.
- Listed
- NASDAQ
- Sector
- Retail trade
- Industry
- Internet retail
- Website
- liquidityservices.com
Liquidity Services GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Liquidity Services’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 54.5, in the Neutral zone, down 0.2 points over five sessions.
54.5Neutral
Down 0.2 points over five sessions.
Reading for Oct 12, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 20 | +2.0% | +2.1% | ||
| Accumulation | 151 | +2.4% | +8.0% | ||
| Neutral (current zone) | 459 | +0.4% | +1.6% | ||
| Distribution | 48 | +0.4% | +5.8% | ||
| Selling | 4 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average LQDT share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Neutral readings averaged +1.1% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
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Is Liquidity Services stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Liquidity Services trades 3.0% below Gekko Fair Value of $44.72, so the shares are about fair value on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Liquidity Services shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$44.72
Gekko Fair Value, Oct 10, 2026
3.0% below fair value · About fair value
At the end of Aug 2026 the price was 7.6% below the estimate.
Gekko Fair ValueShare price, month end
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Liquidity Services insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Liquidity Services, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in LQDT were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
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Buybacks
Liquidity Services has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- $1.51M
- As a share of market cap
- 0.11%
- Trailing four quarters
- $19.13M
From company filings.
Liquidity Services earnings: next date and track record
Liquidity Services reports on Nov 19, 2026 (38 days away).
Next earnings report
Nov 19, 2026
38 days away
- EPS estimate
- $0.44
- Revenue estimate
- $61.10M
Liquidity Services stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Liquidity Services is $51.00, +17.5% from the last close, from 2 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$51.00consensus 12-month target, +17.5% from the last close
Now $43.39Avg $51.00
Low $50High $52
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 2 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12 | Barrington | $50 | +15.2% |
| Aug 7 | Craig-Hallum | $52 | +19.8% |
| Aug 7 | Barrington | $50 | +15.2% |
+1.6%average 20-day move after past Neutral readings
+2.6%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±2.6%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Liquidity Services seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Oct 10, Liquidity Services averaged +2.6% across the last 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +0.7% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +1.4% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +0.5% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +2.6% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +13.7% | 4 of 5 |
For scale, LQDT’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 6.3%.
Liquidity Services market cap and key statistics
Liquidity Services’s market cap is $1.35B, with a P/E ratio of 41.3 and revenue of $489.6M over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $1.35B
- P/E ratio
- 41.3
- Forward P/E
- 24.6
- EPS, TTM
- $1.02
- Gekko Fair Value
- $44.72
Trading
- Volume
- 239,000
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 257,486
- 52-week high
- $45.00
- 52-week low
- $21.67
- Shares outstanding
- 31.33M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $489.6M
- Profit margin
- 6.8%
- Return on equity
- 15%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +39.1%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 1.04
- Typical daily move
- ±2.6%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±6.3%
Liquidity Services stock news this week
4 headlines about Liquidity Services from the past week, newest first, each linking to the publisher.
- Contrasting Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) & Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN)Defense World, Oct 8
- Enterprise value to EBITDA forward of Liquidity Services, Inc. – BX:L1STradingView, Oct 7
- Liquidity Services Inc (LQDT) Shares Fall 4.0% -- What GF Score of 67 Tells InvestorsGuruFocus, Oct 6
- Liquidity Services stock gets an USD 80 million auction dealAD HOC NEWS, Oct 5
Liquidity Services peers
Liquidity Services’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| AMZNAmazon.com | Neutral | 1.8% above |
| MELIMercadoLibre | Neutral | 7.8% above |
| EBAYeBay | Neutral | 18.8% above |
| CPNGCoupang | Neutral | 18.0% below |
| CHWYChewy | Accumulation | 15.8% below |
| ETSYEtsy | Neutral | 2.9% above |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
Liquidity Services stock FAQ
What is Liquidity Services’s market cap?
Liquidity Services’s market cap is $1.35B at the Oct 12, 2026 close of $43.39, with 31.33M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 41.3.
What is the Liquidity Services stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Liquidity Services is $51.00, +17.5% from the last close. Of the 2 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 2 rate it a buy, 0 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Liquidity Services stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Liquidity Services is about fair value: the Oct 12, 2026 close of $43.39 is 3.0% below Gekko Fair Value of $44.72. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Liquidity Services report earnings next?
Liquidity Services is expected to report on Nov 19, 2026 (38 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $0.44 per share on revenue of $61.10M.
What is Liquidity Services’s 52-week high and low?
Liquidity Services’s 52-week high is $45.00 and its 52-week low is $21.67; it closed at $43.39 on Oct 12, 2026, +83.5% over the past year.
Is Liquidity Services stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 2 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (trend and earnings risk), 3 as mixed (gekkoindex, fair value and seasonality). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
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