Capital One Financial Predicts Higher Earnings for HubSpot

HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE:HUBS - Free Report) - Analysts at Capital One Financial upped their FY2025 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for HubSpot in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday, February 12th. Capital One Financial analyst C. Murphy now expects that the software maker will post earnings of $0.96 per share for the year, up from their previous forecast of $0.95. The consensus estimate for HubSpot's current full-year earnings is $1.01 per share.

HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS - Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February 12th. The software maker reported $0.20 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $2.18 by ($1.98). HubSpot had a negative return on equity of 0.07% and a net margin of 0.17%.

Several other equities analysts have also recently weighed in on HUBS. Jefferies Financial Group raised their price objective on HubSpot from $860.00 to $900.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a research note on Monday, February 3rd. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price target on shares of HubSpot from $635.00 to $725.00 and gave the company an "overweight" rating in a research report on Tuesday, February 11th. Citigroup upped their price objective on shares of HubSpot from $750.00 to $900.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research report on Tuesday, February 11th. Redburn Atlantic initiated coverage on shares of HubSpot in a research report on Wednesday. They set a "buy" rating on the stock. Finally, TD Cowen lowered HubSpot from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating and upped their target price for the company from $680.00 to $725.00 in a report on Friday, January 17th. Five analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twenty-one have issued a buy rating to the company's stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, HubSpot currently has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus price target of $863.96.

HubSpot Price Performance

Shares of HUBS stock traded down $22.81 during trading hours on Monday, reaching $748.14. The company had a trading volume of 672,286 shares, compared to its average volume of 496,154. The company has a market cap of $39.02 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 8,313.56, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 44.50 and a beta of 1.72. HubSpot has a 12 month low of $434.84 and a 12 month high of $881.13. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $739.56 and a 200-day simple moving average of $628.81.

Insider Transactions at HubSpot

In other HubSpot news, CEO Yamini Rangan sold 115 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $713.79, for a total transaction of $82,085.85. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 61,179 shares in the company, valued at $43,668,958.41. This represents a 0.19 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, insider Brian Halligan sold 8,500 shares of HubSpot stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $729.65, for a total value of $6,202,025.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now owns 513,698 shares in the company, valued at approximately $374,819,745.70. This represents a 1.63 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last three months, insiders sold 39,612 shares of company stock worth $28,993,612. 4.50% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On HubSpot

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Farther Finance Advisors LLC increased its stake in shares of HubSpot by 5.4% in the fourth quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC now owns 255 shares of the software maker's stock worth $178,000 after buying an additional 13 shares during the period. Wedbush Securities Inc. increased its position in shares of HubSpot by 3.4% in the fourth quarter. Wedbush Securities Inc. now owns 393 shares of the software maker's stock valued at $274,000 after acquiring an additional 13 shares during the period. First Horizon Advisors Inc. raised its stake in shares of HubSpot by 2.4% during the fourth quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. now owns 638 shares of the software maker's stock valued at $445,000 after acquiring an additional 15 shares during the last quarter. Amalgamated Bank boosted its holdings in shares of HubSpot by 0.5% during the fourth quarter. Amalgamated Bank now owns 3,259 shares of the software maker's stock worth $2,271,000 after purchasing an additional 16 shares during the period. Finally, Avitas Wealth Management LLC grew its stake in shares of HubSpot by 0.8% in the fourth quarter. Avitas Wealth Management LLC now owns 2,038 shares of the software maker's stock worth $1,420,000 after purchasing an additional 17 shares during the last quarter. 90.39% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

HubSpot Company Profile

HubSpot, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform for businesses in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company's CRM platform includes Marketing Hub, a toolset for marketing automation and email, social media, SEO, and reporting and analytics; Sales Hub offers email templates and tracking, conversations and live chat, meeting and call scheduling, lead and website visit alerts, lead scoring, sales automation, pipeline management, quoting, forecasting, and reporting; Service Hub, a service software designed to help businesses manage, respond, and connect with customers; and Content Management Systems Hub enables businesses to create new and edit existing web content.