Altair Engineering - ALTR Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Altair Engineering in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" ALTR shares.
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5 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for Altair Engineering's stock. Their ALTR share price forecasts range from $44.00 to $70.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $64.33 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.0%.
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Altair Engineering's stock was trading at $45.47 at the start of the year. Since then, ALTR shares have increased by 52.1% and is now trading at $69.17.
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Altair Engineering saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,940,000 shares, an increase of 14.4% from the February 28th total of 2,570,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 313,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 9.4 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 4th 2023.
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Altair Engineering Inc. (NASDAQ:ALTR) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 4th. The software reported $0.11 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.01 by $0.10. The software earned $121.30 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $113.96 million. Altair Engineering had a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 1.21% and a negative net margin of 7.59%. Altair Engineering's quarterly revenue was up 13.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned ($0.06) EPS.

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Altair Engineering issued an update on its first quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 23rd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $155.00 million-$158.00 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $168.59 million.

166 employees have rated Altair Engineering Chief Executive Officer James R. Scapa on Glassdoor.com. James R. Scapa has an approval rating of 99% among the company's employees. This puts James R. Scapa in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 86.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Altair Engineering to a friend.

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(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 trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ALTR."

Altair Engineering's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Matrix Capital Management Company LP (13.57%), Impax Asset Management Group plc (3.60%), Conestoga Capital Advisors LLC (2.92%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.22%), abrdn plc (0.77%) and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.52%). Insiders that own company stock include Amy Messano, Andrea Siudara, Brett R Chouinard, Brett R Chouinard, Brian Gayle, Christ Revocable Trust, David L Simon, George J Christ, George J Christ, Gilma Saravia, Howard N Morof, Howard N Morof, James Dagg, James Ralph Scapa, Jan Kowal, Jeffrey Marraccini, Jrs Investments Llc, Mahalingam Srikanth, Matthew Charles Brown, Nelson Dias, R Scapa Declaration Of James, Raoul Maitra, Richard Hart, Shekar G Ayyar, Stephanie Buckner and Uwe Schramm.
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Shares of ALTR stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of ALTR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $69.17.

Altair Engineering (NASDAQ:ALTR) has a market capitalization of $5.54 billion and generates $572.22 million in revenue each year. The software earns $-43,430,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.58) on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 3,000 workers across the globe.

Altair Engineering's mailing address is 1820 EAST BIG BEAVER ROAD, TROY MI, 48083. The official website for the company is www.altair.com. The software can be reached via phone at (248) 614-2400, via email at ir@altair.com, or via fax at 248-614-2411.