NYSE:SAPSAP Stock Price, Forecast & News

SAP's stock was trading at $112.62 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, SAP stock has increased by 20.6% and is now trading at $135.82. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for SAP in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for SAP.

SAP is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 16th 2020. View our earnings forecast for SAP.

SAP SE (NYSE:SAP) released its earnings results on Tuesday, April, 21st. The software maker reported $0.85 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.82 by $0.03. The software maker had revenue of $6.52 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.53 billion. SAP had a net margin of 15.27% and a return on equity of 16.19%. SAP's quarterly revenue was up 6.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.90 earnings per share. View SAP's earnings history.

SAP declared a -- dividend on Wednesday, February 26th. Investors of record on Friday, May 22nd will be given a dividend of $1.7119 per share on Tuesday, June 2nd. This represents a dividend yield of 0.9%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 21st. View SAP's dividend history.

SAP issued an update on its FY 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Tuesday, April, 21st. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $30.663-31.436 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $28.15 billion.

13 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for SAP's stock. Their forecasts range from $47.00 to $196.00. On average, they expect SAP's share price to reach $131.57 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.1%. View analysts' price targets for SAP.

News stories about SAP stock have trended very negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. SAP earned a media sentiment score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the software maker a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View the latest news aboutSAP.

SAP saw a decline in short interest in the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 2,920,000 shares, a decline of 11.8% from the April 15th total of 3,310,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,050,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.8 days. Approximately 0.3% of the company's stock are short sold. View SAP's Current Options Chain.

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

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

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

SAP's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.65%), Sustainable Growth Advisers LP (0.13%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (0.11%), Cambiar Investors LLC (0.08%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (0.07%) and Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.06%).

SAP stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including UBS Group AG, Jennison Associates LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Cambiar Investors LLC, Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley, Capital International Investors, and HighTower Advisors LLC.

SAP stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Advisor Group Holdings Inc., Sustainable Growth Advisers LP, FDx Advisors Inc., Clearbridge Investments LLC, Principal Financial Group Inc., Fisher Asset Management LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Wells Fargo & Company MN.

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 $135.82.

SAP has a market capitalization of $162.11 billion and generates $30.86 billion in revenue each year. The software maker earns $3.72 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.02 on an earnings per share basis. SAP employs 100,330 workers across the globe.

The official website for SAP is 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]