Stock Detail
LAMAR ADVERTISING COMPANY - CLASS A
Indices SP 400
LAMR @ Yahoo Finance | LAMR Option @ Yahoo Finance
Last Day's Data
| Current Price | High | Value Change | Percent Change | Dividend | Previous Close |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $24.35 | $25.03 | $-0.48 | -1.93% | 0.00 | $24.83 |
| Opening Price | Low | Volume | Market Cap | Average Volume | P/E |
| $24.56 | $24.19 | 561,662 | 2.26B | 1.14M | -405.83 |
Pivot Table
| R2 | R1 | Pivot | S1 | S2 |
| 25.36 | 24.85 | 24.52 | 24.01 | 23.68 |
Stock Profile
Lamar Advertising Company provides various outdoor advertising services in the United States and Canada. It owns and operates outdoor advertising structures, as well as provides logo sign and transit advertising services. The company engages in creating the advertising copy design and layout, coordinating its printing, and installing the designs on billboard displays. Lamar Advertising erects logo signs pursuant to state-awarded service contracts on public rights-of-way near highway exits and delivers brand name information on available gas, food, lodging, and camping services. The company also operates the tourism signing contracts for the states of Colorado, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, and Virginia, as well as for the province of Ontario, Canada. In addition, it designs and produces logo sign plates for its customers. Lamar Advertising provides transit advertising on bus shelters, benches, and buses. As of December 31, 2004, the company owned and operated approximately 150,000 billboard advertising displays in 43 states; operated approximately 95,000 logo advertising displays in 20 states and the province of Ontario, Canada; and operated approximately 9,900 transit advertising displays in 12 states. In addition to the traditional billboards, the company also has digital displays. It offers its production services to local advertisers and to advertisers that are not represented by advertising agencies. Lamar Advertising is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.