NASDAQ:EPAY - Bottomline Technologies Stock Price, Forecast & News

Bottomline Technologies trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "EPAY."

Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ:EPAY) posted its earnings results on Friday, November, 8th. The technology company reported $0.30 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.28 by $0.02. The technology company had revenue of $108.20 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $105.98 million. Bottomline Technologies had a net margin of 2.10% and a return on equity of 5.75%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 5.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.33 EPS. View Bottomline Technologies' Earnings History.

Bottomline Technologies is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 30th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Bottomline Technologies.

Bottomline Technologies issued an update on its FY 2020 IntraDay earnings guidance on Monday, November, 25th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.35-1.42 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.39. The company issued revenue guidance of $$442-452 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $$448.8 million.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Bottomline Technologies' shares. Their forecasts range from $46.00 to $57.50. On average, they anticipate Bottomline Technologies' share price to reach $53.50 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for Bottomline Technologies.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Bottomline Technologies in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Bottomline Technologies.

News stories about EPAY stock have been trending somewhat positive on Wednesday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Bottomline Technologies earned a news sentiment score of 0.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the technology company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Bottomline Technologies.

Bottomline Technologies saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 1,090,000 shares, an increase of 19.7% from the November 28th total of 910,800 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 283,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.8 days. Approximately 2.6% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Bottomline Technologies' Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Bottomline Technologies investors own include Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), Adobe (ADBE), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Netflix (NFLX), NVIDIA (NVDA), Square (SQ), Alibaba Group (BABA), Oracle (ORCL), AbbVie (ABBV) and AT&T (T).

Bottomline Technologies' stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include KAMES CAPITAL plc (1.36%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.07%), Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.03%), We Are One Seven LLC (0.03%), Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (0.01%) and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.01%). Company insiders that own Bottomline Technologies stock include Benjamin E Robinson III, Jeffrey C Leathe, Jennifer M Gray, John Francis Kelly, Joseph L Mullen, Ken D'amato, Nigel K Savory, Norman J Deluca, Peter Gibson, Richard Douglas Booth and Robert A Eberle. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Bottomline Technologies.

EPAY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including KAMES CAPITAL plc, Louisiana State Employees Retirement System, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and We Are One Seven LLC. Company insiders that have sold Bottomline Technologies company stock in the last year include Benjamin E Robinson III, Jeffrey C Leathe, Jennifer M Gray, John Francis Kelly, Ken D'amato, Nigel K Savory, Norman J Deluca, Richard Douglas Booth and Robert A Eberle. View Insider Buying and Selling for Bottomline Technologies.

EPAY stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Janney Montgomery Scott LLC and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank . View Insider Buying and Selling for Bottomline Technologies.

Shares of EPAY 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 EPAY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $54.77.

Bottomline Technologies has a market capitalization of $2.41 billion and generates $421.96 million in revenue each year. The technology company earns $9.43 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.97 on an earnings per share basis. Bottomline Technologies employs 1,900 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Bottomline Technologies.

The official website for Bottomline Technologies is http://www.bottomline.com/.

Bottomline Technologies' mailing address is 325 CORPORATE DRIVE, PORTSMOUTH NH, 03801. The technology company can be reached via phone at 603-436-0700 or via email at [email protected]