Scotiabank Has Positive Estimate for HubSpot FY2025 Earnings

HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) – Investment analysts at Scotiabank lifted their FY2025 earnings per share estimates for shares of HubSpot in a research report issued on Wednesday, March 19th. Scotiabank analyst N. Altmann now expects that the software maker will earn $0.85 per share for the year, up from their previous estimate of $0.83. Scotiabank has a “Sector Outperform” rating and a $900.00 price target on the stock. The consensus estimate for HubSpot’s current full-year earnings is $1.01 per share.

A number of other equities analysts also recently issued reports on the stock. UBS Group upgraded shares of HubSpot from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 19th. Jefferies Financial Group raised their price target on HubSpot from $860.00 to $900.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, February 3rd. BMO Capital Markets upped their price objective on HubSpot from $690.00 to $885.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, February 13th. Barclays raised shares of HubSpot from an “equal weight” rating to an “overweight” rating and set a $815.00 price target on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, March 12th. Finally, StockNews.com lowered shares of HubSpot from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, February 25th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, twenty-two have given a buy rating and two have issued a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, HubSpot currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $848.58.

HubSpot Stock Performance

Shares of HUBS opened at $626.39 on Monday. The company has a market capitalization of $32.67 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 6,960.61, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 41.44 and a beta of 1.80. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $713.86 and a 200-day simple moving average of $657.13. HubSpot has a fifty-two week low of $434.84 and a fifty-two week high of $881.13.

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

Insider Activity at HubSpot

In other HubSpot news, insider Brian Halligan sold 8,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $607.48, for a total transaction of $5,163,580.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now directly owns 527,233 shares in the company, valued at $320,283,502.84. This trade represents a 1.59 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CEO Yamini Rangan sold 3,057 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, January 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $701.59, for a total value of $2,144,760.63. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 54,079 shares in the company, valued at approximately $37,941,285.61. This represents a 5.35 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last quarter, insiders have sold 22,425 shares of company stock valued at $15,866,151. 4.50% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Advantage Alpha Capital Partners LP increased its stake in shares of HubSpot by 113.4% in the third quarter. Advantage Alpha Capital Partners LP now owns 18,666 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $9,923,000 after buying an additional 9,919 shares during the period. Melqart Asset Management UK Ltd increased its stake in HubSpot by 15.2% during the 3rd quarter. Melqart Asset Management UK Ltd now owns 33,878 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $18,010,000 after purchasing an additional 4,468 shares in the last quarter. Paloma Partners Management Co acquired a new stake in shares of HubSpot in the 3rd quarter worth about $3,721,000. Bamco Inc. NY boosted its position in shares of HubSpot by 19.6% during the third quarter. Bamco Inc. NY now owns 37,926 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $20,161,000 after buying an additional 6,215 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. boosted its holdings in HubSpot by 2.3% during the 3rd quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 194,538 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $103,416,000 after acquiring an additional 4,331 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 90.39% of the company’s stock.

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.