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Liquidity Services, Inc. (LQDT)

Consumer Cyclical · Specialty Retail · Small-cap · updated October 16, 2026

NOT A BUY TODAY
What this means. Liquidity Services, Inc. is an average business by our measures, its shares look expensive compared with other stocks, and its share price has been doing well.
Value26
Quality56
Price trend83
Overall46
1816 of 2764rank among the US stocks we score (our core model buys the top 15)
34%of US stocks we score rank below it

Scores are 0 to 100 against every US stock we track; 50 is average. Recomputed after every US market close.

The business in numbers

Fiscal year to September 2025, from the company's annual filing with the SEC.

Salesyearly sales$476.7M
Sales growthchange from the year before+31.2%
Gross marginshare of sales left after the direct cost of what it sells43.8%
Operating marginshare of sales left after running the business7.4%
Net marginshare of sales kept as profit5.9%
Free-cash-flow marginspare cash generated per $100 of sales12.4%
Return on invested capitalprofit made on each $100 put into the business12.9%
Return on equityprofit vs. shareholders' accounting value13.1%
Change in share countnegative = the company is buying back its shares+2.5%

Insider trades, last 90 days

1 insider sold $28K (all under pre-arranged plans) on the open market.

Daunt JohnEVP, Chief Commercial OfficerSold (plan)Aug 3715 shat $39.00 · $28K

From Form 4 filings with the SEC. Open-market trades only. "Plan" = a sale set up in advance under a 10b5-1 plan, usually routine.

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