BlackLine (BL) Stock Forecast, Price & News

11 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BlackLine in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" BL shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BL, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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11 brokers have issued 1 year price objectives for BlackLine's shares. Their BL share price forecasts range from $50.00 to $87.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $63.55 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 18.3% from the stock's current price.
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BlackLine's stock was trading at $67.27 at the beginning of the year. Since then, BL shares have decreased by 20.1% and is now trading at $53.72.
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BlackLine saw a drop in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,280,000 shares, a drop of 16.1% from the April 30th total of 3,910,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 554,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.9 days. Approximately 6.7% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 3rd 2023.
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BlackLine, Inc. (NASDAQ:BL) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May, 4th. The technology company reported $0.06 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.10) by $0.16. The technology company earned $138.98 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $137.91 million. BlackLine had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.19% and a negative net margin of 5.79%.

ETFs with the largest weight of BlackLine (NASDAQ:BL) stock in their portfolio include Alger Mid Cap 40 ETF (FRTY), WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund (WCLD), First Trust Cloud Computing ETF (SKYY), SPDR S&P Software & Services ETF (XSW), Direxion Daily Cloud Computing Bull 2x (CLDL), ProShares Ultra Nasdaq Cloud Computing ETF (SKYU), Vanguard Russell 2000 Growth ETF (VTWG) and iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF (IWO).

BlackLine updated its second quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, May, 4th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.27-$0.29 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.19. The company issued revenue guidance of $143.00 million-$145.00 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $144.36 million.

62 employees have rated BlackLine Chief Executive Officer Marc Huffman on Glassdoor.com. Marc Huffman has an approval rating of 90% among the company's employees. 85.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at BlackLine to a friend.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other BlackLine investors own include Block (SQ), Walt Disney (DIS), Slack Technologies (WORK), NVIDIA (NVDA), Okta (OKTA), DocuSign (DOCU), Twilio (TWLO), Teladoc Health (TDOC), CrowdStrike (CRWD) and Zoom Video Communications (ZM).

(BL) raised $120 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, October 28th 2016. The company issued 8,600,000 shares at $13.00-$15.00 per share. Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Pacific Crest Securities (a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets), Raymond James, William Blair and Baird were co-managers.

BlackLine trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "BL."

BlackLine's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC (3.57%), Riverbridge Partners LLC (3.41%), DF Dent & Co. Inc. (3.00%), Brown Advisory Inc. (2.93%), Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (2.78%) and Champlain Investment Partners LLC (2.62%). Insiders that own company stock include Graham Smith, Marc Huffman, Mark Partin, Mark Woodhams, Mika Yamamoto, Morgan Karole Prager, Owen Ryan, Peter Hirsch, Therese Tucker and Thomas Unterman.
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Shares of BL 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 BL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $53.72.

BlackLine (NASDAQ:BL) has a market capitalization of $3.25 billion and generates $522.94 million in revenue each year. The technology company earns $-33,520,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.50) on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 1,814 workers across the globe.

BlackLine's mailing address is 21300 Victory Boulevard 12th Floor, Woodland Hills CA, 91367. The official website for the company is www.blackline.com. The technology company can be reached via phone at (818) 223-9008 or via email at investors@blackline.com.