Lamar Advertising Company (LAMR) Stock

About Lamar Advertising Company

Lamar Advertising Company is led by CEO Sean E. Reilly, employs 3,500 people, headquartered in Baton Rouge, US, publicly traded since 1996.

Lamar Advertising Company (LAMR) stock trades at $155.02 with a market capitalization of $15.74B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 26.25, price-to-book of 14.69, price-to-sales of 6.29. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $114.45 and $166.33, and currently trades 6.8% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 4.58%.

On profitability, Lamar Advertising Company generates a return on equity (ROE) of 55.48%, above the typical market range of roughly 12-15%, return on capital employed of 10.46%, an operating margin of 30.80%, a net profit margin of 23.90%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Lamar Advertising Company reported annual revenue of $2.3B, net profit of $587.0M. Over the last 5 fiscal years, revenue grew at an average annual rate of 7.6%, and net profit grew at an average annual rate of 19.3%. Over that span net profit grew faster than revenue, so net margin widened.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.00 (debt more than twice shareholders' equity), a current ratio of 0.95, total assets of $6.9B, $65.0M in cash and equivalents.

LAMR has an average daily trading volume of 604,948 shares, a beta of 1.20.

Lamar Advertising Company by the numbers, 2016–2025

Between 2016 and 2025 Lamar Advertising Company reported revenue of $1.5B rising to $2.3B, a change of +51.1% across 10 years. Compounded, revenue has grown 7.6% a year over five years, 3.7% over three, 2.7% over the last twelve months. Net profit rose to $587.0M.

Operating margin went from 29.3% in 2016 to 30.8% in 2025, a gain of 1.5 percentage points. The most recent net margin is 23.90%. On a trailing twelve-month basis to Jun '26, revenue is $2.3B and net profit $556.0M.

Borrowings rose from $2.3B to $6.2B, cash from operations was $864.0M in the latest year, positive in 10 of the last 10.

Return on equity has averaged 40.4% over five years, and was 58.0% in the most recent year.

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