Elastic (ESTC) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Elastic N.V., a data analytics company, delivers solutions designed to run in public or private clouds in multi-cloud environments. It primarily offers Elastic Stack, a set of software products that ingest and store data from various sources and formats, as well as performs search, analysis, and visualization on that data. The company's Elastic Stack product portfolio comprises Elasticsearch, a distributed, real-time search and analytics engine, and data store for various types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured; Kibana, a user interface, management, and configuration interface for the Elastic Stack; Elastic Agent that offers integrated host protection and central management services; Beats, a single-purpose data shippers for sending data from edge machines to Elasticsearch or Logstash; and Logstash, a data processing pipeline for ingesting data into Elasticsearch or other storage systems from a multitude of sources simultaneously. It also provides software solutions on the Elastic Stack that address cases, including search applications, workplace search, logs, metrics, application performance monitoring, synthetic monitoring, security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint security, extended detection and response, and cloud security. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $101.14 to $104.89
• 50-Day Range: $77.58 to $116.27
• 52-Week Range: $69.00 to $136.06
• Volume: 1.86 million shs
• Average Volume: 1.35 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $10.74 billion
• P/E Ratio: 188.42
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: $126.50
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

Elastic Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Elastic scored higher than 78% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 212th out of 653 stocks in the computer and technology sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 3.4 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

Elastic has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.80, and is based on 18 buy ratings, 6 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Elastic has been the subject of 23 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.3 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: Growing

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Elastic are expected to grow in the coming year, from ($0.79) to ($0.78) per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Elastic is 188.42, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 113.29.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Elastic is 188.42, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Computer and Technology sector average P/E ratio of about 238.11.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Elastic has a P/B Ratio of 13.23. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 5.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Healthy

Percentage of Shares Shorted

2.68% of the float of Elastic has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Elastic has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 1.7, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Elastic has recently decreased by 22.30%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: N/A

Dividend Yield

Elastic does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

Elastic does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Sustainability and ESG

• Score: N/A
• Environmental Score: N/A

Percentage of Shares Shorted

2.68% of the float of Elastic has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Elastic has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 1.7, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Elastic has recently decreased by 22.30%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.

News and Social Media

• Score: 3.1 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.50

News Sentiment

Elastic has a news sentiment score of 0.50. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.64 average news sentiment score of Computer and Technology companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 21 news articles for Elastic this week, compared to 11 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

31 people have searched for ESTC on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 520% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

15 people have added Elastic to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 400% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 3.3 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Elastic insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $18,637,562.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

15.90% of the stock of Elastic is held by insiders. A high percentage of insider ownership can be a sign of company health.

Percentage Held by Institutions

97.03% of the stock of Elastic is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

ESTC Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have ESTC shares performed this year?

Elastic's stock was trading at $112.70 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, ESTC stock has decreased by 8.0% and is now trading at $103.63.
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How were Elastic's earnings last quarter?

Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) released its earnings results on Thursday, August, 29th. The company reported $0.35 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.25 by $0.10. The company's revenue was up 18.3% compared to the same quarter last year.

Does Elastic have any subsidiaries?

Elastic subsidiaries include Optimyze, CMD, Build.security, Endgame, Perched, Lambda Lab, Swiftype, and others.

When did Elastic IPO?

Elastic (ESTC) raised $192 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, October 5th 2018. The company issued 7,000,000 shares at $26.00-$29.00 per share. Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Barclays and RBC Capital Markets acted as the underwriters for the IPO and BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Jefferies and Canaccord Genuity were co-managers.

Who are Elastic's major shareholders?

Elastic's top institutional investors include Baillie Gifford & Co. (9.16%), FMR LLC (5.33%), Sylebra Capital LLC (2.73%) and Atreides Management LP (1.64%). Insiders that own company stock include Steven Schuurman, Shay Banon, Ashutosh Kulkarni, Janesh Moorjani, Ken Exner, Mark Eugene Dodds, Carolyn Herzog, Paul R Auvil III, Jonathan Chadwick and Shelley B Leibowitz.
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How do I buy shares of Elastic?

Shares of ESTC stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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What other stocks do shareholders of Elastic own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Elastic investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Meta Platforms (META), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Broadcom (AVGO), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Invesco QQQ (QQQ) and Adobe (ADBE).

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 8/29/2024
• Today: 12/21/2024
• Fiscal Year End: 4/30/2025

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NYSE
• Sector: Computer and Technology
• Industry: Prepackaged software
• Sub-Industry: Computer Software
• Current Symbol: NYSE:ESTC
• CUSIP: N/A
• CIK: 1707753
• Web: www.elastic.co
• Phone: (650) 458-2620
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 3,187
• Year Founded: 2012

Price Target and Rating

• Average Stock Price Target: $126.50
• High Stock Price Target: $150.00
• Low Stock Price Target: $80.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +22.1%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.80
• Research Coverage: 25 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year): $0.55
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 188.42
• Forward P/E Ratio: N/A
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: $61.72 million
• Net Margins: 4.39%
• Pretax Margin: -7.18%
• Return on Equity: -13.20%
• Return on Assets: -4.59%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.70
• Current Ratio: 1.99
• Quick Ratio: 1.99

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $1.38 billion
• Price / Sales: 7.81
• Cash Flow: N/A
• Price / Cash Flow: N/A
• Book Value: $7.83 per share
• Price / Book: 13.23

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 103,632,000
• Free Float: 87,155,000
• Market Cap: $10.74 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.02