HLI Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Houlihan Lokey Class A | NYSE:HLI)

Houlihan Lokey Inc is an investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, valuation, and strategic consulting. The firm serves corporations, institutions, and governments world-wide with offices in the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. The company operates in three segments. In the Corporate Finance business segment, it provides M&A and capital markets advisory services. Through the Financial Restructuring business segment, the company advises on some of the complex restructurings around the world. The Financial and Valuation Advisory Services business segment provides valuation and financial opinion, and financial and strategic consulting practices in the United States.

Houlihan Lokey Class A trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol HLI.

As of January 30, 2026, HLI stock price declined to $168.32 with 599,478 million shares trading.

HLI has a beta of 0.91, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. HLI has a correlation of 0.31 to the broad based SPY ETF.

HLI has a market cap of $11.73 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Houlihan Lokey Class A reported $717 million in Revenue and $1.94 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $13 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.08.

In the last 3 years, HLI traded as high as $211.78 and as low as $83.92.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that HLI belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IJH, VB, VBK, VXF.

HLI has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -5.3% while the SPY ETF gained +15.6%. HLI has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -15.2% and -11.4%, respectively, while the SPY returned +2.1% and 0.0%, respectively.

HLI support price is $165.31 and resistance is $172.32 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that HLI shares will trade within this expected range on the day.