Lincoln ElectricLECO
LECO
About: Lincoln Electric is a leading manufacturer of welding, cutting, and brazing products. The firm's portfolio of products includes arc-welding solutions, plasma and oxy-fuel cutting systems, and brazing and soldering alloys, as well as automation solutions. Lincoln Electric serves clients in the general fabrication, heavy industries, automotive, construction, shipbuilding, energy and process industries, among other end markets. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln Electric has operations in 19 countries and has 11,000 employees worldwide. The company generated roughly $4 billion in sales in 2024.
Employees: 12,000
0
Funds holding %
of 7,323 funds
0
Analysts bullish %
of 5 analysts
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
85% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 89 | Existing positions closed: 48
65% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $4.09M | Put options by funds: $2.48M
30% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 222 | Existing positions reduced: 171
6% more funds holding
Funds holding: 539 [Q4 2024] → 569 (+30) [Q1 2025]
0% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 5 [Q4 2024] → 5 (+0) [Q1 2025]
3.38% less ownership
Funds ownership: 78.0% [Q4 2024] → 74.62% (-3.38%) [Q1 2025]
19% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $9.76B [Q4 2024] → $7.91B (-$1.85B) [Q1 2025]
Research analyst outlook
5 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
Low target
$180
19%
downside
Avg. target
$221
1%
downside
High target
$250
12%
upside
5 analyst ratings
3 positive
60%
1 neutral
20%
1 negative
20%
Stifel Nathan Jones | 6%upside $236 | Hold Maintained | 21 Jul 2025 |
Keybanc Jeffrey Hammond | 12%upside $250 | Overweight Maintained | 15 Jul 2025 |
Morgan Stanley Angel Castillo | 19%downside $180 | Underweight Maintained | 6 May 2025 |
Keybanc Justin Patterson | 1%upside $225 | Overweight Maintained | 1 May 2025 |
Baird Mircea Dobre | 5%downside $212 | Outperform Maintained | 1 May 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 4 articles about LECO published over the past 30 days
Positive
Zacks Investment Research
6 days ago
Lincoln Electric Holdings (LECO) Expected to Beat Earnings Estimates: Should You Buy?
Lincoln Electric (LECO) possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.
Neutral
Business Wire
1 week ago
Lincoln Electric Board Declares Dividend
CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #LEA--Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc., (Nasdaq: LECO) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.75 per common share, payable October 15, 2025, to shareholders of record as of September 30, 2025. Business Lincoln Electric is the world leader in the engineering, design, and manufacturing of advanced arc welding solutions, automated joining, assembly and cutting systems, plasma and oxy-fuel cutting equipment, and has a leading gl.
Neutral
Business Wire
3 weeks ago
Lincoln Electric Schedules Webcast for Second Quarter 2025 Results
CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #LEA--Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc., (the “Company”) (Nasdaq: LECO) announced today that it will release its second quarter 2025 results on Thursday, July 31, 2025, prior to market open. An investor conference call and webcast will take place at 10:00 a.m. (ET) later that day. The event is available via webcast in listen-only mode and can be accessed here or on the Company's Investor Relations home page at https://ir.lincolnelectric.com. To participate via telephone, ple.
Positive
Seeking Alpha
4 weeks ago
Top 50 High-Quality Dividend Stocks For July 2025
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Neutral
Business Wire
1 month ago
Lincoln Electric to Ring the Nasdaq Opening Bell on June 10, 2025
CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #LEA--Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: LECO) (“the Company”), the leading global manufacturer of advanced arc welding solutions, announced today that the Company will ring the Nasdaq Stock Market opening bell on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, which will begin at approximately 9:15am ET. Chair, President and CEO, Steven B. Hedlund, along with members of the Company's Board of Directors and its leadership team, will participate in the ceremonial bell ringing at the Nasdaq M.
Positive
Seeking Alpha
1 month ago
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Positive
Seeking Alpha
2 months ago
Lincoln Electric: An Undervalued Stock With A Better-Than-Fair Price
Lincoln Electric, a US-based global manufacturer of welding products, is now a $10 billion (by market cap) welding products leader. LECO increased its dividend for 30 consecutive years, with a 10-year dividend growth rate of 11.9%. The company moved its revenue from $2.5 billion in FY 2015 to $4.0 billion in FY 2024, a compound annual growth rate of 5.4%.
Positive
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2 months ago
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Positive
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2 months ago
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Neutral
The Motley Fool
2 months ago
Why Lincoln Electrical Stock Sputtered by 4% Today
Lincoln Electric (LECO -4.36%) investors were hoping Wednesday that their company's first quarterly earnings report of 2025 wouldn't be indicative of how the rest of the year would go. The welding-products maker missed on the consensus analyst profitability estimate, and the market punished it by sending its stock to a more than 4% loss in price.
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