NASDAQ:PEGA - Pegasystems Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Pegasystems declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, March 18th. Investors of record on Monday, April 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.03 per share on Monday, April 15th. This represents a $0.12 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.17%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 29th. View Pegasystems' Dividend History.

Pegasystems shares split on Wednesday, April 2nd 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, March 10th 2014. The newly minted 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 Inc. (NASDAQ:PEGA) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February, 20th. The technology company reported $0.36 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.16 by $0.20. The technology company earned $256.36 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $252.71 million. Pegasystems had a return on equity of 0.34% and a net margin of 1.19%. Pegasystems's revenue was up .7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.45 earnings per share. View Pegasystems' Earnings History.

Pegasystems is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 7th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Pegasystems.

Pegasystems updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 20th. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.50 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $0.62. The company issued revenue guidance of $965 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $941.86 million.Pegasystems also updated its FY 2019 guidance to $0.50-0.50 EPS.

2 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Pegasystems' stock. Their predictions range from $66.86 to $72.00. On average, they expect Pegasystems' stock price to reach $69.43 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.4%. View Analyst Price Targets for Pegasystems.

2 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Pegasystems in the last year. There are currently 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Pegasystems.

Media coverage about PEGA stock has trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Pegasystems earned a media sentiment score of 1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the technology company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days.

Pegasystems saw a drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,223,774 shares, a drop of 37.4% from the February 28th total of 1,954,430 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 411,214 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.0 days. Currently, 3.5% of the company's stock are short sold. View Pegasystems' Current Options Chain.

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Pegasystems' stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Riverbridge Partners LLC (0.99%), Scout Investments Inc. (0.12%), Roubaix Capital LLC (0.09%), We Are One Seven LLC (0.01%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.01%) and Wedbush Securities Inc. (0.01%). 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 and Steven F Kaplan. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Pegasystems.

PEGA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Riverbridge Partners LLC, Scout Investments Inc. and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. 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 Roubaix Capital LLC, Wedbush Securities Inc., Dubuque Bank & Trust Co. and We Are One Seven LLC. 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 $71.8550.

Pegasystems has a market capitalization of $5.64 billion and generates $891.58 million in revenue each year. Pegasystems employs 4,650 workers across the globe.

The official website for Pegasystems is http://www.pega.com.

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]