Elastic (ESTC) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Elastic N.V. operates as a search and analytics company, offering a suite of open source and subscription-based solutions for search, observability and security use cases. Its flagship product, Elasticsearch, enables fast and scalable full-text search and analytics across large volumes of structured and unstructured data. Complementary tools such as Kibana provide visualization capabilities, while Beats and Logstash serve as lightweight data shippers and data processing pipelines, respectively.

The company was founded in 2012 by Shay Banon, who serves as chief technology officer, and Steven Schuurman. Elastic grew rapidly in the enterprise market by embracing an open source development model and introducing Elastic Cloud in 2016, allowing customers to access Elastic’s core offerings via a managed service. Elastic debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in October 2018 under the ticker symbol ESTC.

Elastic’s platform addresses a variety of use cases including application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, security information and event management (SIEM), and enterprise search. Organizations leverage Elastic to ingest, search and visualize logs, metrics and application traces in real time. Its security solutions utilize the Elastic Stack to detect, investigate and respond to cyberthreats across complex IT environments.

Headquartered in Amsterdam and Mountain View, California, Elastic serves customers worldwide across sectors such as technology, financial services, retail and government. The company maintains regional offices in North America, Europe and Asia–Pacific and works with a network of channel partners and consultants to deploy tailored solutions. Elastic’s leadership team combines open source veterans and enterprise-software experts to guide product innovation and global expansion.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $53.20 to $65.25
• 50-Day Range: $43.23 to $64.82
• 52-Week Range: $42.05 to $96.07
• Volume: 7.47 million shs
• Average Volume: 1.91 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $6.71 billion
• P/E Ratio: 18.52
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: $80.04
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

Elastic Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Elastic scored higher than 88% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 102nd out of 631 stocks in the computer and technology sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 4.1 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

Elastic has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.52, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 18 buy ratings, 11 hold ratings, and 2 sell ratings.

Upside Potential

Elastic has a consensus price target of $80.04, representing about 23.5% upside from its current price of $64.82.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Elastic has been the subject of 20 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 3.1 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 1,650.00%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Elastic are expected to grow by 1,650.00% in the coming year, from $0.02 to $0.35 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Elastic is 18.52, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 44.98.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Elastic is 18.52, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Computer and Technology sector average P/E ratio of about 172.23.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Elastic has a PEG Ratio of 122.43. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Elastic has a P/B Ratio of 7.30. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 2.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Bearish

Percentage of Shares Shorted

6.09% of the float of Elastic has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Elastic has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 3.2, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Elastic has recently increased by 3.41%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: N/A

Dividend Yield

Elastic does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

Elastic does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.6 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.20

News Sentiment

Elastic has a news sentiment score of 0.20. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.74 average news sentiment score of Computer and Technology companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 53 news articles for Elastic this week, compared to 8 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

Only 5 people have searched for ESTC on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -29% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

3 people have added Elastic to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 200% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Elastic insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $1,996,469.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

12.70% of the stock of Elastic is held by insiders. A high percentage of insider ownership can be a sign of company health.

Percentage Held by Institutions

97.03% of the stock of Elastic is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 5/28/2026
• Today: 5/31/2026
• Bank of America 2026 Global Technology Conference: 6/04/2026
• Rosenblatt 6th Annual Age of AI Technology Summit: 6/10/2026
• Next Earnings (Confirmed): 7/31/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 4/30/2027

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NYSE
• Sector: Computer and Technology
• Industry: INTERNET SOFTWARE
• Sub-Industry: Computer Software
• Current Symbol: NYSE:ESTC
• CIK: 1707753
• Web: www.elastic.co
• Phone: (650) 458-2620
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 3,537
• Year Founded: 2012

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Elastic: $80.04
• High Price Target: $150.00
• Low Price Target: $49.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +23.5%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.52
• Research Coverage: 31 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $3.50
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 18.52
• Forward P/E Ratio: 3,241.15
• P/E Growth: 122.43
• Net Income: -$108.11 million
• Net Margins: 21.14%
• Pretax Margin: 0.16%
• Return on Equity: -2.02%
• Return on Assets: -0.72%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.72
• Current Ratio: 1.82
• Quick Ratio: 1.82

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $1.74 billion
• Price / Sales: 3.86
• Cash Flow: $0.49 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 132.84
• Book Value: $8.88 per share
• Price / Book: 7.30

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 103,500,000
• Free Float: 90,356,000
• Market Cap: $6.71 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 0.88