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. Investors 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 0.55%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 31st. View QAD's Dividend History.

QAD Inc. (NASDAQ:QADA) announced its earnings results on Tuesday, November, 26th. The software maker reported $0.01 earnings per share 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 analysts' expectations of $78.28 million. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 2.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business 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 updated 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 brokerages have issued 1-year price objectives for QAD's stock. Their forecasts range from $58.00 to $60.00. On average, they anticipate QAD's stock price to reach $59.33 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 13.3% 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.

News articles about QADA stock have trended neutral this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. QAD earned a news impact score of 0.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the software maker a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for QAD.

QAD saw a decrease in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 211,600 shares, a decrease 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 currently 3.3 days. Approximately 1.8% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View QAD's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to QAD include ANSYS (ANSS), Aspen Technology (AZPN), Monotype Imaging (TYPE), American Software (AMSWA), VirnetX (VHC), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), Adobe (ADBE), Advent Software (ADVS), Autodesk (ADSK), Blackbaud (BLKB), Bottomline Technologies (EPAY), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Citrix Systems (CTXS), Digimarc (DMRC) and Ebix (EBIX).

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 number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Renaissance Technologies LLC (3.05%), ArrowMark Colorado Holdings LLC (1.97%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (1.49%), AltraVue Capital LLC (1.27%), State Street Corp (1.23%) and Royce & Associates LP (1.17%). 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 Russell Investments Group Ltd., State Street Corp, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Boston Partners, Spark Investment Management LLC, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Panagora Asset Management Inc. and Barclays PLC. 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 $52.36.