SAP Stock Price, Forecast & Analysis (NYSE:SAP)

SAP trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SAP."

SAP announced an annual dividend on Wednesday, April 17th. Stockholders of record on Friday, May 17th will be paid a dividend of $1.6961 per share on Tuesday, May 28th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.51%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 16th. View SAP's Dividend History.

SAP SE (NYSE:SAP) released its earnings results on Monday, October, 21st. The software maker reported $1.30 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.11 by $0.19. The software maker had revenue of $6.80 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.78 billion. SAP had a net margin of 12.62% and a return on equity of 16.12%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 12.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $1.14 EPS. View SAP's Earnings History.

SAP is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 4th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for SAP.

SAP updated its FY 2020 earnings guidance on Monday, October, 21st. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $32.032-32.704 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $32.54 billion.

23 equities research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for SAP's stock. Their forecasts range from $44.00 to $150.00. On average, they expect SAP's stock price to reach $114.94 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 16.0%. View Analyst Price Targets for SAP.

23 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for SAP in the last year. There are currently 12 hold ratings and 11 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for SAP.

Media stories about SAP stock have trended very negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. SAP earned a media sentiment score of -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the software maker a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for SAP.

SAP saw a increase in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 1,810,000 shares, an increase of 18.3% from the August 30th total of 1,530,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 703,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.6 days. Approximately 0.2% of the shares of the company are short sold. View SAP's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to SAP include Oracle (ORCL), Adobe (ADBE), salesforce.com (CRM), VMware (VMW), Intuit (INTU), ServiceNow (NOW), Uber Technologies (UBER), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Dassault Systemes (DASTY), Shopify (SHOP), Autodesk (ADSK), Electronic Arts (EA), Electronic Arts (EA), Square (SQ) and Veeva Systems (VEEV).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other SAP investors own include Cisco Systems (CSCO), Intel (INTC), Walt Disney (DIS), Home Depot (hd), IBM (IBM), NVIDIA (NVDA), salesforce.com (CRM), General Electric (GE), Visa (V) and QUALCOMM (QCOM).

SAP's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.64%), Cambiar Investors LLC (0.10%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.05%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.05%), First Trust Advisors LP (0.03%) and Klingenstein Fields & Co. LLC (0.02%).

SAP stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cambiar Investors LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc., First Trust Advisors LP, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Martin Investment Management LLC, Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. and Envestnet Asset Management Inc..

SAP stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fisher Asset Management LLC, Klingenstein Fields & Co. LLC, George Kaiser Family Foundation, Brinker Capital Inc., Cohen Klingenstein LLC, Scout Investments Inc., Eagle Asset Management Inc. and Park Avenue Securities LLC.

Shares of SAP 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 SAP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $136.78.

SAP has a market capitalization of $163.26 billion and generates $29.18 billion in revenue each year. The software maker earns $4.82 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.53 on an earnings per share basis. SAP employs 96,498 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About SAP.

The official website for SAP is http://www.sap.com/.

SAP's mailing address is DIETMAR-HOPP-ALLEE 16, WALLDORF 2M, 69190. The software maker can be reached via phone at 49-62-2774-7474 or via email at [email protected]