17-Feb-2026
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LKQ Initiates Strategic Review to Maximize Shareholder Value
Globe Newswire (Mon, 26-Jan 8:55 AM ET)
LKQ Corporation to Release Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Results on Thursday, February 19, 2026
Globe Newswire (Thu, 22-Jan 10:00 AM ET)
PRNewswire (Fri, 5-Dec 5:50 PM ET)
LKQ Corporation Initiates Sale Process for Specialty Segment
Globe Newswire (Thu, 4-Dec 7:00 AM ET)
Since forming in 1998 to consolidate the auto salvage business in the United States, LKQ has developed into a leading distributor of aftermarket and recycled auto parts with around 1,500 facilities across North America and Europe. The company primarily sells into the professional channel and offers an assortment of collision and mechanical parts to both body shops and mechanical repair shops. It also continues to operate more than 70 LKQ pick-your-part junkyards. Separate from the self-service business, LKQ usually purchases around 250,000 salvage vehicles annually that are used to extract vehicle parts for resale.
LKQ trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol LKQ.
As of February 17, 2026, LKQ stock price declined to $32.51 with 2,771,230 million shares trading.
LKQ has a beta of 0.30, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. LKQ has a correlation of 0.02 to the broad based SPY ETF.
LKQ has a market cap of $8.32 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
Last quarter LKQ reported $3 billion in Revenue and $.84 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-84 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.09.
In the last 3 years, LKQ traded as high as $59.38 and as low as $28.13.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that LKQ belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, VB, VBR, VXF.
LKQ has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -12.7%, while SPY returned +13.2%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in LKQ shares. However, LKQ has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +4.7% and -1.0%, while SPY returned +1.9% and -1.3%, respectively. This indicates LKQ has been having a stronger performance recently.
LKQ support price is $33.38 and resistance is $34.82 (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 LKQ shares will trade within this expected range on the day.