LECO Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Lincoln Electric Holdings - Common Shares | NASDAQ:LECO)

Lincoln Electric is a leading manufacturer of welding, cutting, and brazing products. Its portfolio includes arc-welding solutions, plasma and oxy-fuel cutting systems, brazing and soldering alloys, and automation solutions. Lincoln Electric serves clients across general fabrication, heavy industries, automotive, construction, shipbuilding, energy, and process industries, among others. Based in Cleveland, Lincoln Electric operates in 19 countries and employs 11,000 worldwide. The company generated roughly $4.2 billion in sales in 2025.

Lincoln Electric Holdings - Common Shares trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol LECO.

As of April 20, 2026, LECO stock price declined to $259.47 with 351,285 million shares trading.

LECO has a beta of 0.87, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. LECO has a correlation of 0.24 to the broad based SPY ETF.

LECO has a market cap of $14.28 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Lincoln Electric Holdings - Common Shares reported $1 billion in Revenue and $2.65 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-17 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.11.

In the last 3 years, LECO traded as high as $310.00 and as low as $155.22.

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

LECO has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +48.0%, while the SPY ETF gained +36.0%. However, in the most recent history, LECO shares have underperformed the stock market with its stock returning -1.3% in the last 3 month period and +6.5% for the last 2 week period, while SPY has returned +2.7% and +8.1%, respectively.

LECO support price is $255.69 and resistance is $267.11 (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 LECO shares will trade within this expected range on the day.