Progress Software Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Progress Software in the last year. There are currently 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" Progress Software stock.
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Progress Software saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 28th, there was short interest totaling 1,910,000 shares, an increase of 21.7% from the May 13th total of 1,570,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 443,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.3 days. Currently, 4.4% of the company's stock are short sold.
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Progress Software is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, June 24th 2021.
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Progress Software will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, June 24th at 5:00 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Progress Software Co. (NASDAQ:PRGS) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, March, 24th. The software maker reported $0.95 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.75 by $0.20. The software maker had revenue of $131.78 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $121.39 million. Progress Software had a net margin of 17.09% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 36.46%. The business's revenue was up 15.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.76 earnings per share.
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Progress Software's stock was trading at $32.60 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, PRGS shares have increased by 39.6% and is now trading at $45.52.
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Progress Software declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, March 23rd. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, June 1st will be given a dividend of $0.175 per share on Tuesday, June 15th. This represents a $0.70 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.54%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, May 28th.
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Progress Software pays an annual dividend of $0.70 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.53%. Progress Software has been increasing its dividend for 4 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Progress Software is 26.12%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Progress Software will have a dividend payout ratio of 23.33% next year. This indicates that Progress Software will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Progress Software declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share repurchase program on Thursday, January 16th 2020, which allows the company to buyback $250,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to purchase up to 11.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are generally an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Progress Software issued an update on its FY21 earnings guidance on Thursday, March, 25th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.38-3.42 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.98. The company issued revenue guidance of $519-527 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $473.50 million.

3 analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Progress Software's stock. Their forecasts range from $43.00 to $56.00. On average, they anticipate Progress Software's stock price to reach $51.33 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 12.8% from the stock's current price.
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139 employees have rated Progress Software CEO Yogesh Gupta on Glassdoor.com. Yogesh Gupta has an approval rating of 54% among Progress Software's employees. This puts Yogesh Gupta in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Progress Software trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PRGS."

Progress Software's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (17.74%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (4.56%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (3.32%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.83%), Boston Trust Walden Corp (2.73%) and Investment Counselors of Maryland LLC (2.25%). Company insiders that own Progress Software stock include Anthony Folger, Charles Francis Kane, Gary Quinn, Jeremy Segal, Paul A Jalbert, Rainer Gawlick and Yogesh K Gupta.
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PRGS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, Man Group plc, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Prudential Financial Inc., Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership, Allianz Asset Management GmbH, D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP. Company insiders that have sold Progress Software company stock in the last year include Gary Quinn, and Jeremy Segal.
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PRGS stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., LSV Asset Management, Investment Counselors of Maryland LLC, NFJ Investment Group LLC, Boston Trust Walden Corp, Geode Capital Management LLC, HRT Financial LP, and Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V.. Company insiders that have bought Progress Software stock in the last two years include Anthony Folger, Rainer Gawlick, and Yogesh K Gupta.
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One share of PRGS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $45.52.

Progress Software has a market capitalization of $2.00 billion and generates $442.15 million in revenue each year. The software maker earns $79.72 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.68 on an earnings per share basis.

Progress Software employs 1,796 workers across the globe.

The following companies are subsidiares of Progress Software: Actional, Allegrix, Apama, Apama (UK) Limited, Apama Inc., BravePoint, Chef, Corticon Technologies, DataDirect Technologies, DataRPM, DataRPM India Private Limited, DataRPM LLC, EasyAsk, Genesis Development Corporation, IONA Technologies, IONA Technologies China Limited, IONA Technologies Spain SL, Ipswitch, Kinvey, Kinvey LLC, MightyMeeting Inc., Mindreef, Modulus, Neon Systems, Oak Park Realty LLC, Oak Park Realty Two LLC, OneBit Software, OpenAccess Software, Orbix Limited, Pantero, PeerDirect, Persistence Software, Persistence Software LLC, Progress (Shanghai) Software System Company Limited, Progress Security Corporation, Progress Software (Pty) Ltd, Progress Software A/S, Progress Software AG, Progress Software B.V., Progress Software Corporation (S) Pte. Ltd., Progress Software Corporation Limited, Progress Software Corporation of Canada Ltd., Progress Software Denmark A/S, Progress Software Development Private Limited, Progress Software EAD, Progress Software Europe B.V., Progress Software Germany GmbH, Progress Software GesmbH, Progress Software GmbH, Progress Software International Corporation, Progress Software Italy S.r.l., Progress Software Limited, Progress Software NV, Progress Software Oy, Progress Software Pty. Ltd., Progress Software S.A.S., Progress Software S.L., Progress Software Solutions India Private Limited, Progress Software Sp. z.o o., Progress Software Svenska AB, Progress Software de Argentina S.A., Progress Software de Venezuela C.A., Progress Software do Brasil Ltda., Progress Software spol. s.r.o., Rollbase, SPK Acquisitions Limited, Savvion, Savvion Inc., Telerik, Telerik India Private Limited, Telerik UK Ltd., Trident Acquisition EAD, Trident Acquisition Limited, Xcalia, and eXcelon Corporation.

Progress Software was founded in 1981.

The official website for Progress Software is www.progress.com.

Progress Software is headquartered at 14 OAK PARK DRIVE, BEDFORD MA, 01730.

Progress Software's mailing address is 14 OAK PARK DRIVE, BEDFORD MA, 01730. The software maker can be reached via phone at 781-280-4000 or via email at [email protected]