3 Reasons LNN is Risky and 1 Stock to Buy Instead Radek Strnad Thu, October 8, 2026 at 12:48 PM EDT 3 min read ^GSPC -0.69% LNN +0.27% Trade Lindsay on Coinbase Trading disclosure Trading disclosure The above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for certain activity generated through this link. Prices displayed are informational.
Since April 2026, Lindsay has been in a holding pattern, posting a small return of 4.6% while floating around $113.43. The stock also fell short of the S&P 500's 15.2% gain during that period.
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We're sitting this one out for now. Here are three reasons why LNN doesn't excite us, plus one stock we'd rather own.
A company's long-term performance is an indicator of its overall quality. Any business can put up a good quarter or two, but the best consistently grow over the long haul. Regrettably, Lindsay's sales grew at a sluggish 3% compounded annual growth rate over the last five years. This was below our standards.
Analyzing the long-term change in earnings per share (EPS) shows whether a company's incremental sales were profitable — for example, revenue could be inflated through excessive spending on advertising and promotions.
Lindsay's weak 2.1% annual EPS growth over the last five years aligns with its revenue performance. This tells us it maintained its per-share profitability as it expanded.
ROIC, or return on invested capital, is a metric showing how much operating profit a company generates relative to the money it has raised (debt and equity).
On average, Lindsay's ROIC decreased by 4.5 percentage points annually each year over the last few years. We like what management has done in the past, but its declining returns are perhaps a symptom of fewer profitable growth opportunities.
Lindsay falls short of our quality standards. With its shares underperforming the market lately, the stock trades at 20.8× forward P/E (or $113.43 per share). At this valuation, there's a lot of good news priced in - we think other companies feature superior fundamentals at the moment. We'd recommend looking at an all-weather company that owns household favorite Taco Bell.
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