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. Shareholders of record on Thursday, January 2nd will be paid 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 0.53%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, December 31st. View QAD's Dividend History.

QAD Inc. (NASDAQ:QADA) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 26th. The software maker reported $0.01 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.09) by $0.10. The software maker had revenue of $77.80 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $78.28 million. QAD had a negative net margin of 3.63% and a negative return on equity of 0.01%. The firm's revenue was down 2.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.14 earnings per share. 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 (EPS) 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 equities research analysts have issued 1-year target prices for QAD's shares. Their forecasts range from $58.00 to $60.00. On average, they anticipate QAD's share price to reach $59.33 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 9.6% 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.

Headlines about QADA stock have trended positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. QAD earned a media sentiment score of 2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the software maker a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for QAD.

QAD saw a decline in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 211,600 shares, a decline of 6.5% from the January 15th total of 226,200 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 63,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.3 days. Approximately 1.8% of the shares of the 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), AT&T (T), Wells Fargo & Co (WFC), Workday (WDAY), Bank of America (BAC), General Motors (GM), Visa (V), Vale (VALE) and Exxon Mobil (XOM).

QAD's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors 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 acquired 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 Geode Capital Management LLC. 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 $54.16.

QAD has a market capitalization of $1.10 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.