MML Investors Services LLC Has $320,000 Stock Holdings in Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DNB)

MML Investors Services LLC boosted its stake in shares of Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DNB) by 62.2% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 27,795 shares of the business services provider’s stock after buying an additional 10,658 shares during the period. MML Investors Services LLC’s holdings in Dun & Bradstreet were worth $320,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA raised its holdings in shares of Dun & Bradstreet by 5.9% during the third quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 56,497,966 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $650,292,000 after acquiring an additional 3,144,458 shares during the period. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC increased its holdings in Dun & Bradstreet by 7.4% during the 3rd quarter. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC now owns 21,085,138 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $242,690,000 after purchasing an additional 1,451,705 shares in the last quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP raised its stake in shares of Dun & Bradstreet by 14.1% in the 2nd quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 14,665,247 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $135,796,000 after purchasing an additional 1,809,638 shares during the period. FMR LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Dun & Bradstreet by 17.8% in the third quarter. FMR LLC now owns 11,465,075 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $131,963,000 after purchasing an additional 1,733,220 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Azora Capital LP boosted its position in shares of Dun & Bradstreet by 119.8% during the third quarter. Azora Capital LP now owns 7,973,354 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $91,773,000 after buying an additional 4,346,033 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 86.68% of the company’s stock.

Dun & Bradstreet Price Performance

Shares of DNB opened at $12.25 on Wednesday. The company has a current ratio of 0.70, a quick ratio of 0.70 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.08. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $12.05 and its 200 day simple moving average is $11.23. Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. has a 1-year low of $8.77 and a 1-year high of $12.94. The company has a market cap of $5.41 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -153.13, a PEG ratio of 3.44 and a beta of 1.16.

Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October 31st. The business services provider reported $0.27 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $0.27. Dun & Bradstreet had a negative net margin of 1.46% and a positive return on equity of 11.50%. The company had revenue of $609.10 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $605.64 million. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.23 EPS. Dun & Bradstreet’s revenue for the quarter was up 3.5% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, research analysts forecast that Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. will post 0.88 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Dun & Bradstreet Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, December 19th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 5th were given a $0.05 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, December 5th. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.63%. Dun & Bradstreet’s payout ratio is -250.00%.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of brokerages recently issued reports on DNB. Needham & Company LLC reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $17.00 target price on shares of Dun & Bradstreet in a research report on Friday, November 1st. StockNews.com upgraded shares of Dun & Bradstreet from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 2nd. Finally, Barclays increased their target price on shares of Dun & Bradstreet from $11.00 to $12.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday, September 13th. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, two have assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $13.83.

Dun & Bradstreet Profile

Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides business-to-business data and analytics in North America and internationally. It offers finance and risk solutions, including D&B Finance Analytics, an online application that offers clients real time access to its information, comprehensive monitoring, and portfolio analysis; D&B Direct, an application programming interface (API) that delivers risk and financial data directly into enterprise applications for real-time credit decision-making; D&B Small Business, a suite of tools that allows SMBs to monitor and build their business credit file; D&B Enterprise Risk Assessment Manager, a solution for managing and automating credit decisioning and reporting; and D&B Risk Analytics, a subscription-based online application that offers clients real-time access to complete and up-to-date global information to mitigate supply chain risk, regulatory risk, and ESG assessment, as well as other related risks; Risk Guardian, a subscription-based online application that offers real-time access to Northern Europe information, monitoring, and portfolio analysis; and D&B Beneficial Ownership that offers risk intelligence on ultimate beneficial ownership.