BlackLine (BL) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

BlackLine, Inc. provides cloud-based financial operations and accounting automation software for businesses. Its platform is designed to help accounting and finance teams manage, standardize and automate processes that traditionally rely on spreadsheets, manual data entry and disconnected systems.

The company’s products support financial close and consolidation, account reconciliations, transaction matching, intercompany accounting, accounts receivable automation and invoice-to-cash workflows. BlackLine also offers tools intended to improve visibility, controls, compliance and collaboration across finance organizations.

BlackLine was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California. The company serves organizations across multiple industries and geographies through its cloud-based software platform. BlackLine completed its initial public offering in 2016. Owen Ryan serves as chief executive officer, and co-founder Therese Tucker serves as executive chair.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $25.56 to $29.22
• 50-Day Range: $25.89 to $34.80
• 52-Week Range: $24.70 to $59.57
• Volume: 2.63 million shs
• Average Volume: 1.02 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $1.50 billion
• P/E Ratio: 39.23
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: $39.08
• Consensus Rating: Hold

BlackLine Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

BlackLine scored higher than 82% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 166th out of 584 stocks in the technology sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 3.7 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

BlackLine has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.15, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 5 buy ratings, 5 hold ratings, and 3 sell ratings.

Upside Potential

BlackLine has a consensus price target of $39.08, representing about 51.0% upside from its current price of $25.89.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

BlackLine has only been the subject of 3 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 20.20%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for BlackLine are expected to grow by 20.20% in the coming year, from $0.99 to $1.19 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of BlackLine is 39.23, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 26.41.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of BlackLine is 39.23, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Technology sector average P/E ratio of about 43.38.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

BlackLine has a PEG Ratio of 1.70. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

BlackLine has a P/B Ratio of 4.63. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 3.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Healthy

Percentage of Shares Shorted

9.38% of the float of BlackLine has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

BlackLine has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 5.91.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in BlackLine has recently decreased by 10.13%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.

Dividend

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

Dividend Yield

BlackLine does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

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

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.7 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.40

News Sentiment

BlackLine has a news sentiment score of 0.40. 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 news sentiment score is similar to the average news sentiment of Technology companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 24 news articles for BlackLine this week, compared to 6 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

Only 5 people have searched for BL on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -17% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

1 people have added BlackLine to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.8 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, BlackLine insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $2,263,447.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

9.10% of the stock of BlackLine is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

95.13% of the stock of BlackLine is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 11/05/2026
• Today: 11/08/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Sector: Technology
• Industry: Software
• Sub-Industry: Application Software
• Current Symbol: NASDAQ:BL
• CIK: 1666134
• Web: www.blackline.com
• Phone: (818) 223-9008
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 1,850
• Year Founded: 2001

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for BlackLine: $39.08
• High Price Target: $70.00
• Low Price Target: $23.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +51.0%
• Consensus Rating: Hold
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.15
• Research Coverage: 13 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $0.66
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 39.23
• Forward P/E Ratio: 21.76
• P/E Growth: 1.7
• Net Income: $24.17 million
• Net Margins: 5.37%
• Pretax Margin: 6.46%
• Return on Equity: 23.59%
• Return on Assets: 4.81%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 2.12
• Current Ratio: 1.72
• Quick Ratio: 1.72

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $732.45 million
• Price / Sales: 2.05
• Cash Flow: $2.21 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 11.74
• Book Value: $5.59 per share
• Price / Book: 4.63

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 58,125,000
• Free Float: 52,836,000
• Market Cap: $1.50 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 0.67