KBW Sticks to Their Buy Rating for Houlihan Lokey (HLI)

In a report released today, Alex Bond from KBW maintained a Buy rating on Houlihan Lokey, with a price target of $172.00.

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According to TipRanks, Bond is an analyst with an average return of -8.0% and a 31.43% success rate. Bond covers the Financial sector, focusing on stocks such as BlackRock, Hamilton Lane, and Perella Weinberg Partners.

Currently, the analyst consensus on Houlihan Lokey is a Strong Buy with an average price target of $178.00.

Based on Houlihan Lokey’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending December 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $717.07 million and a net profit of $116.55 million. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $634.43 million and had a net profit of $95.3 million

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 28 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of HLI in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in February 2026, Robert Schriesheim, a Director at HLI sold 5,000.00 shares for a total of $854,300.00.