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

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

Altair Engineering Inc (NASDAQ:ALTR) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The software reported ($0.09) EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.05 by $0.14. The software earned $102.70 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $105.04 million. Altair Engineering had a positive return on equity of 4.40% and a negative net margin of 3.85%. Altair Engineering's revenue for the quarter was up 18.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.10 earnings per share. 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 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Altair Engineering's stock. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $44.00. On average, they anticipate Altair Engineering's stock price to reach $36.34 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.2%. 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 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Altair Engineering.

Press coverage about ALTR stock has been trending positive recently, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Altair Engineering earned a news sentiment score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the software a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Altair Engineering.

Altair Engineering saw a increase in short interest in 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 presently 12.9 days. Currently, 12.5% of the company's stock are sold short. View Altair Engineering's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Altair Engineering include Intel (INTC), NVIDIA (NVDA), Broadcom (AVGO), Texas Instruments (TXN), 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), First Solar (FSLR) and Cree (CREE).

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

(ALTR) raised $144 million in an initial public offering 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 acted 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including 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 $39.18.

Altair Engineering has a market capitalization of $2.81 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]