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GitLab's (GTLB) "Buy" Rating Reiterated at Needham & Company LLC

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Key Points

  • Needham & Company LLC reiterated a Buy rating on GitLab with a $32 price target, implying roughly a 64.8% upside from the stock's current price.
  • Analyst coverage is mixed—MarketBeat shows a consensus of Hold with a $39.62 average target (1 Strong Buy, 11 Buy, 14 Hold, 4 Sell)—while GTLB trades near $19.42, well below its 52‑week high of $54.08.
  • GitLab beat quarterly EPS and reported 23.2% revenue growth year‑over‑year but remains unprofitable (negative net margin and ROE), and insiders sold about 1.27M shares (~$29.8M) in the last quarter.
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GitLab (NASDAQ:GTLB - Get Free Report)'s stock had its "buy" rating reaffirmed by analysts at Needham & Company LLC in a report issued on Monday,Benzinga reports. They currently have a $32.00 price target on the stock. Needham & Company LLC's price target suggests a potential upside of 64.78% from the stock's current price.

Several other equities research analysts have also issued reports on GTLB. BTIG Research lowered their target price on shares of GitLab from $32.00 to $30.00 and set a "buy" rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, March 4th. Barclays reduced their price target on shares of GitLab from $29.00 to $25.00 and set an "underweight" rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, March 4th. Cantor Fitzgerald restated a "neutral" rating on shares of GitLab in a research report on Wednesday, March 4th. William Blair restated an "underperform" rating on shares of GitLab in a research report on Monday, March 23rd. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein reduced their price target on shares of GitLab from $70.00 to $60.00 and set an "outperform" rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, March 4th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, eleven have issued a Buy rating, fourteen have given a Hold rating and four have issued a Sell rating to the company's stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of "Hold" and a consensus target price of $39.62.

Read Our Latest Stock Analysis on GitLab

GitLab Price Performance

GTLB stock opened at $19.42 on Monday. The company's 50-day simple moving average is $25.34 and its 200-day simple moving average is $35.85. GitLab has a 52-week low of $18.73 and a 52-week high of $54.08. The firm has a market cap of $3.30 billion, a P/E ratio of -55.49 and a beta of 0.85.

GitLab (NASDAQ:GTLB - Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, March 3rd. The company reported $0.30 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.23 by $0.07. GitLab had a negative net margin of 5.86% and a negative return on equity of 1.73%. The business had revenue of $260.40 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $252.31 million. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.33 EPS. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 23.2% on a year-over-year basis. On average, analysts anticipate that GitLab will post -0.31 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Transactions at GitLab

In other GitLab news, Director Matthew Jacobson sold 459,799 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, March 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $22.37, for a total value of $10,285,703.63. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, Director Sytse Sijbrandij sold 54,300 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, February 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $28.41, for a total transaction of $1,542,663.00. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last quarter, insiders sold 1,268,508 shares of company stock valued at $29,848,496. 16.37% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Institutional Trading of GitLab

A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of GTLB. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised its holdings in GitLab by 1.6% in the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 776,521 shares of the company's stock valued at $36,496,000 after acquiring an additional 12,200 shares during the last quarter. Woodline Partners LP acquired a new stake in GitLab in the 1st quarter valued at about $314,000. Russell Investments Group Ltd. raised its holdings in GitLab by 31.6% in the 2nd quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. now owns 7,112 shares of the company's stock valued at $321,000 after acquiring an additional 1,709 shares during the last quarter. California Public Employees Retirement System raised its holdings in GitLab by 17.0% in the 2nd quarter. California Public Employees Retirement System now owns 167,870 shares of the company's stock valued at $7,573,000 after acquiring an additional 24,448 shares during the last quarter. Finally, State Street Corp raised its holdings in GitLab by 7.0% in the 2nd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 2,283,597 shares of the company's stock valued at $103,013,000 after acquiring an additional 148,713 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 95.04% of the company's stock.

About GitLab

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GitLab Inc NASDAQ: GTLB is a leading provider of a unified DevOps platform designed to streamline the software development lifecycle. Founded in 2011 by Dmitriy Zaporozhets and Sid Sijbrandij, the company initially gained recognition for its open-source Git repository manager. Over time, GitLab expanded its offerings to encompass planning, source code management, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), security testing, and monitoring in a single application. This integrated approach enables development teams to collaborate efficiently, reduce toolchain complexity, and accelerate release cycles.

The GitLab platform is offered through both cloud-hosted and self-managed deployment models, catering to organizations of all sizes.

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