NASDAQ:ALTR - Altair Engineering Stock Price, Forecast & News

Altair Engineering trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ALTR."

Altair Engineering Inc (NASDAQ:ALTR) issued its earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The software reported ($0.09) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.05 by $0.14. The software earned $102.70 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $105.04 million. Altair Engineering had a negative net margin of 3.85% and a positive return on equity of 4.40%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 18.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.10 EPS. View Altair Engineering's Earnings History.

Altair Engineering is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 27th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Altair Engineering.

Altair Engineering issued an update on its FY 2019 After-Hours earnings guidance on Monday, November, 25th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $$449-453 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $$470.91 million.

6 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Altair Engineering's stock. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $44.00. On average, they expect Altair Engineering's share price to reach $35.20 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.2%. View Analyst Price Targets for Altair Engineering.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Altair Engineering in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 3 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Altair Engineering.

Media coverage about ALTR stock has been trending very negative on Saturday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Altair Engineering earned a media sentiment score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the software a news buzz of 3.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Altair Engineering.

Altair Engineering saw a increase in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 4,640,000 shares, an increase of 15.4% from the December 15th total of 4,020,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 360,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 12.9 days. Approximately 12.5% of the company's stock are short sold. View Altair Engineering's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Altair Engineering include Intel (INTC), NVIDIA (NVDA), Texas Instruments (TXN), Broadcom (AVGO), Micron Technology (MU), Analog Devices (ADI), Microchip Technology (MCHP), Xilinx (XLNX), Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), Marvell Technology Group (MRVL), Maxim Integrated Products (MXIM), Cypress Semiconductor (CY), Monolithic Power Systems (MPWR), Cree (CREE) and First Solar (FSLR).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Altair Engineering investors own include Cisco Systems (CSCO), Intel (INTC), Allergan (AGN), NVIDIA (NVDA), QUALCOMM (QCOM), salesforce.com (CRM), General Electric (GE), Twitter (TWTR), Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Tesla (tsla).

(ALTR) raised $144 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Wednesday, November 1st 2017. The company issued 12,000,000 shares at a price of $11.00-$13.00 per share. J.P. Morgan, RBC Capital Markets and Deutsche Bank Securities served as the underwriters for the IPO and William Blair and Canaccord Genuity were co-managers.

Altair Engineering's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Conestoga Capital Advisors LLC (2.70%), Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.00%) and Carroll Financial Associates Inc. (0.00%). Company insiders that own Altair Engineering stock include Brett R Chouinard, Christ Revocable Trust, Gc Investments Llc, George J Christ, Howard N Morof, James Dagg, James E Brancheau, James Ralph Scapa, Jan Kowal, Jrs Investments Llc, Mahalingam Srikanth, Martin E Nichols, Massimo Giuseppe Fariello, Nelson Dias, R Scapa Declaration Of James and Uwe Schramm. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Altair Engineering.

ALTR stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Conestoga Capital Advisors LLC, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank and Carroll Financial Associates Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Altair Engineering.

Shares of ALTR can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ALTR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $36.38.

Altair Engineering has a market capitalization of $2.61 billion and generates $396.38 million in revenue each year. The software earns $13.72 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.37 on an earnings per share basis. Altair Engineering employs 2,850 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Altair Engineering.

The official website for Altair Engineering is http://www.altair.com/.

Altair Engineering's mailing address is 1820 EAST BIG BEAVER ROAD, TROY MI, 48083. The software can be reached via phone at 248-614-2400 or via email at [email protected]