Scotiabank Comments on HubSpot’s FY2025 Earnings (NYSE:HUBS)

HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) – Scotiabank boosted their FY2025 EPS estimates for shares of HubSpot in a note issued to investors on Wednesday, March 19th. Scotiabank analyst N. Altmann now expects that the software maker will post earnings of $0.85 per share for the year, up from their prior forecast 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.

HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, February 12th. The software maker reported $0.20 earnings per share (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%.

HUBS has been the topic of several other research reports. William Blair restated an “outperform” rating on shares of HubSpot in a research note on Thursday, February 13th. Piper Sandler increased their price objective on shares of HubSpot from $640.00 to $808.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Thursday, February 13th. StockNews.com cut shares of HubSpot from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, February 25th. Stifel Nicolaus boosted their target price on shares of HubSpot from $880.00 to $925.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, February 13th. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group raised their price target on HubSpot from $783.00 to $900.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, February 13th. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, twenty-one have issued a buy rating and two have given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, HubSpot currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $853.32.

HubSpot Trading Up 1.1 %

Shares of HUBS opened at $604.89 on Monday. HubSpot has a 12 month low of $434.84 and a 12 month high of $881.13. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $715.33 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $656.27. The company has a market cap of $31.55 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 6,721.75, a P/E/G ratio of 41.44 and a beta of 1.80.

Institutional Trading of HubSpot

Hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Elequin Capital LP purchased a new stake in HubSpot in the 4th quarter worth $27,000. Larson Financial Group LLC grew its holdings in HubSpot by 168.8% during the 4th quarter. Larson Financial Group LLC now owns 43 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $30,000 after purchasing an additional 27 shares during the last quarter. MassMutual Private Wealth & Trust FSB grew its holdings in HubSpot by 73.1% during the 4th quarter. MassMutual Private Wealth & Trust FSB now owns 45 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $31,000 after purchasing an additional 19 shares during the last quarter. Coppell Advisory Solutions LLC grew its holdings in HubSpot by 91.7% during the 4th quarter. Coppell Advisory Solutions LLC now owns 46 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $32,000 after purchasing an additional 22 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB bought a new position in HubSpot during the 3rd quarter valued at about $25,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 90.39% of the company’s stock.

Insider Activity at HubSpot

In related news, CEO Yamini Rangan sold 3,057 shares of HubSpot stock in a transaction on Friday, January 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $701.59, for a total transaction of $2,144,760.63. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now owns 54,079 shares in the company, valued at approximately $37,941,285.61. The trade was a 5.35 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, insider Brian Halligan sold 8,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, February 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $810.00, for a total transaction of $6,885,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 524,751 shares in the company, valued at approximately $425,048,310. The trade was a 1.59 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last quarter, insiders have sold 22,425 shares of company stock worth $15,866,151. 4.50% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

About HubSpot

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.