NASDAQ:QADA - QAD Stock Price, Forecast & News

QAD trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "QADA."

QAD announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, December 17th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, January 2nd will be given a dividend of $0.072 per share on Thursday, January 9th. This represents a $0.29 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.54%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, December 31st. View QAD's Dividend History.

QAD Inc. (NASDAQ:QADA) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 26th. The software maker reported $0.01 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.09) by $0.10. The software maker earned $77.80 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $78.28 million. QAD had a negative return on equity of 0.01% and a negative net margin of 3.63%. QAD's quarterly revenue was down 2.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.14 EPS. View QAD's Earnings History.

QAD is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, March 18th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for QAD.

QAD will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, March 18th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

QAD issued an update on its FY 2020 After-Hours earnings guidance on Tuesday, November, 26th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $$311-311 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $$315.06 million.

4 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for QAD's shares. Their forecasts range from $58.00 to $60.00. On average, they expect QAD's stock price to reach $59.33 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 10.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for QAD.

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

Media stories about QADA stock have trended extremely negative recently, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. QAD earned a news sentiment score of -4.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the software maker a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for QAD.

QAD saw a drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 211,600 shares, a drop of 6.5% from the January 15th total of 226,200 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 63,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.3 days. Currently, 1.8% of the company's stock are sold short. View QAD's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other QAD investors own include Snap (SNAP), Netflix (NFLX), Wells Fargo & Co (WFC), Bank of America (BAC), General Motors (GM), AT&T (T), Vale (VALE), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Rent-A-Center (RCII) and Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA).

QAD's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Renaissance Technologies LLC (3.05%), Capital Research Global Investors (2.46%), ArrowMark Colorado Holdings LLC (1.97%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (1.49%), AltraVue Capital LLC (1.27%) and State Street Corp (1.23%). Company insiders that own QAD stock include Anton Chilton, Cuylenburg Peter Van, Daniel Lender, Kara Bellamy, Leslie Stretch and Pamela M Lopker. View Institutional Ownership Trends for QAD.

QADA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including ArrowMark Colorado Holdings LLC, Oxford Asset Management LLP, Royce & Associates LP, Rutabaga Capital Management LLC MA, California Public Employees Retirement System, AQR Capital Management LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp and Bank of America Corp DE. Company insiders that have sold QAD company stock in the last year include Leslie Stretch and Pamela M Lopker. View Insider Buying and Selling for QAD.

QADA stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Capital Research Global Investors, Russell Investments Group Ltd., State Street Corp, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Boston Partners, Spark Investment Management LLC, Acadian Asset Management LLC and Panagora Asset Management Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for QAD.

Shares of QADA 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 QADA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $53.68.

QAD has a market capitalization of $1.09 billion and generates $333.02 million in revenue each year. The software maker earns $10.43 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.51 on an earnings per share basis. QAD employs 1,970 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About QAD.

The official website for QAD is http://www.qad.com/.

QAD's mailing address is 100 INNOVATION PLACE, SANTA BARBARA CA, 93108. The software maker can be reached via phone at 805-566-6000.