NASDAQ:SPLK - Splunk Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Splunk trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "SPLK."

Splunk Inc (NASDAQ:SPLK) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 29th. The software company reported $0.38 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($0.23) by $0.61. The software company earned $480.98 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $433.60 million. Splunk had a negative net margin of 18.92% and a negative return on equity of 22.60%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 40.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.17 earnings per share. View Splunk's Earnings History.

Splunk is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, March 7th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Splunk.

Splunk updated its FY 2020 earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 29th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.15-2.15 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.1 billion.Splunk also updated its FY 2019 guidance to EPS.

33 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for Splunk's shares. Their predictions range from $110.00 to $170.00. On average, they expect Splunk's share price to reach $129.20 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 20.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Splunk.

33 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Splunk in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 28 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Splunk.

Media headlines about SPLK stock have trended very positive recently, according to InfoTrie. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news 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. Splunk earned a news impact score of 3.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the software company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future.

Splunk saw a increase in short interest in October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 7,613,140 shares, an increase of 35.2% from the October 15th total of 5,629,414 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 3,268,942 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.3 days. Approximately 5.2% of the company's stock are sold short. View Splunk's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Splunk include Intuit (INTU), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), ServiceNow (NOW), Dassault Systemes (DASTY), Autodesk (ADSK), Square (SQ), Electronic Arts (EA), CA (CA), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), Shopify (SHOP), Citrix Systems (CTXS), Symantec (SYMC), Synopsys (SNPS), ANSYS (ANSS) and Veeva Systems (VEEV).

Splunk's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (8.60%), Jennison Associates LLC (4.81%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (3.35%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.87%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2.15%) and Pictet Asset Management Ltd. (1.42%). Company insiders that own Splunk stock include David F Conte, Douglas Merritt, Godfrey Sullivan, Graham Smith, John G Connors, Ledger Susan St, Leonard R Stein, Mark T Carges, Thomas M Neustaetter and Timothy Tully. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Splunk.

SPLK stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Winslow Capital Management LLC, Allianz Asset Management GmbH, American Century Companies Inc., Alliancebernstein L.P., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Company LTD, First Trust Advisors LP and Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp. Company insiders that have sold Splunk company stock in the last year include David F Conte, Douglas Merritt, Godfrey Sullivan, Graham Smith, Ledger Susan St, Leonard R Stein, Mark T Carges, Thomas M Neustaetter and Timothy Tully. View Insider Buying and Selling for Splunk.

SPLK stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FIL Ltd, FMR LLC, AQR Capital Management LLC, Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Sanoor Capital Management LP, Nikko Asset Management Americas Inc. and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Splunk.

Shares of SPLK 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 SPLK stock can currently be purchased for approximately $107.0857.

Splunk has a market capitalization of $15.32 billion and generates $1.27 billion in revenue each year. The software company earns $-259,100,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($1.31) on an earnings per share basis. Splunk employs 3,200 workers across the globe.

The official website for Splunk is http://www.splunk.com.

Splunk's mailing address is 270 BRANNAN STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA, 94107. The software company can be reached via phone at 415-848-8400 or via email at [email protected]