NASDAQ:PEGA - Pegasystems Stock Price, Price Target & More

Pegasystems trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PEGA."

Pegasystems declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, March 16th. Stockholders of record on Monday, April 2nd will be given a dividend of $0.03 per share on Monday, April 16th. This represents a $0.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.19%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 29th. View Pegasystems' Dividend History.

Pegasystems shares split on the morning of Wednesday, April 2nd 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, March 10th 2014. The newly issued shares were payable to shareholders after the market closes on Tuesday, April 1st 2014. An investor that had 100 shares of Pegasystems stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Pegasystems (NASDAQ:PEGA) issued its earnings results on Thursday, May, 10th. The technology company reported $0.24 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.31 by $0.07. The technology company earned $235.18 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $228.97 million. Pegasystems had a return on equity of 3.62% and a net margin of 2.12%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 8.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.66 earnings per share. View Pegasystems' Earnings History.

Pegasystems is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August, 8th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Pegasystems.

Pegasystems issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Monday, February, 26th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of ~$1.20 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.79. The company issued revenue guidance of ~$950.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $892.04 million.

6 brokers have issued twelve-month target prices for Pegasystems' shares. Their forecasts range from $57.00 to $72.00. On average, they expect Pegasystems' stock price to reach $65.1417 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Pegasystems.

Pegasystems saw a decrease in short interest in April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totalling 644,798 shares, a decrease of 29.5% from the April 13th total of 914,449 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 376,471 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.7 days. Approximately 1.8% of the shares of the company are short sold.

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Media headlines about PEGA stock have trended somewhat negative recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Pegasystems earned a media sentiment score of -0.08 on Accern's scale. They also gave news stories about the technology company an impact score of 44.43 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days.

Pegasystems' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (3.05%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (1.92%), Eagle Asset Management Inc. (1.50%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.24%), Royal Bank of Canada (1.16%) and OppenheimerFunds Inc. (0.98%). Company insiders that own Pegasystems stock include Douglas I Kra, Efstathios A Kouninis, Kenneth Stillwell, Larry Weber, Leon Trefler, Michael R Pyle, Richard H Jones, Sharon T Rowlands, Steven F Kaplan and William W Wyman. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Pegasystems.

PEGA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Vista Equity Partners Management LLC, Tiverton Asset Management LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Fisher Asset Management LLC, Glen Harbor Capital Management LLC, Citigroup Inc. and Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Pegasystems company stock in the last year include Douglas I Kra, Efstathios A Kouninis, Kenneth Stillwell, Larry Weber, Leon Trefler, Michael R Pyle, Richard H Jones and Steven F Kaplan. View Insider Buying and Selling for Pegasystems.

PEGA stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Millennium Management LLC, AO Asset Management LP, Fiera Capital Corp, UBS Group AG, Smith Asset Management Group LP, Prudential Financial Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd. and Old Mutual Global Investors UK Ltd.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Pegasystems.

Shares of PEGA 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of PEGA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $61.55.

Pegasystems has a market capitalization of $4.84 billion and generates $840.58 million in revenue each year. The technology company earns $32.93 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.22 on an earnings per share basis. Pegasystems employs 4,237 workers across the globe.

Pegasystems' mailing address is ONE ROGERS STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA, 02142. The technology company can be reached via phone at 617-374-9600 or via email at [email protected]