VMware Stock Forecast, Price & News

15 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for VMware in the last twelve months. There are currently 9 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" VMware stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in VMW, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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VMware is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 23rd 2021.
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VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August, 25th. The virtualization software provider reported $1.75 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.64 by $0.11. The virtualization software provider had revenue of $3.14 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.10 billion. VMware had a net margin of 16.77% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 23.49%. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $1.81 earnings per share.
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VMware's stock was trading at $106.01 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, VMW stock has increased by 32.1% and is now trading at $140.07.
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VMware updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, September, 16th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $6.900-$6.900 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $6.950. The company issued revenue guidance of $12.80 billion-$12.80 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $12.83 billion.

15 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for VMware's shares. Their forecasts range from $145.00 to $190.00. On average, they expect VMware's share price to reach $172.23 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 23.0% from the stock's current price.
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2,988 employees have rated VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger on Glassdoor.com. Pat Gelsinger has an approval rating of 94% among VMware's employees. This puts Pat Gelsinger in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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

VMware's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (1.73%), Dodge & Cox (1.71%), Vanguard Group Inc. (1.18%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (0.86%), UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. (0.65%) and First Trust Advisors LP (0.58%). Company insiders that own VMware stock include Amy Fliegelman Olli, Cynthia Gaylor, Jean Pierre Brulard, Maurizio Carli, Onsi Fakhouri, Patrick P Gelsinger, Patrick P Gelsinger, Rajiv Ramaswami, Rangarajan (Raghu) Raghuram, Robert C Mee, Sanjay Poonen, Scott Yara, Sumit Dhawan, William Cook and Zane Rowe.
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VMW stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Clearbridge Investments LLC, Parallax Volatility Advisers L.P., First Trust Advisors LP, Susquehanna International Group LLP, Bank of America Corp DE, Bank of America Corp DE, and American Century Companies Inc.. Company insiders that have sold VMware company stock in the last year include Amy Fliegelman Olli, Jean Pierre Brulard, Patrick P Gelsinger, Rajiv Ramaswami, Rangarajan (Raghu) Raghuram, Sanjay Poonen, Sumit Dhawan, and Zane Rowe.
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VMW stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Invesco Ltd., HAP Trading LLC, Laurion Capital Management LP, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Marshall Wace LLP, Dodge & Cox, Amundi, and Lord Abbett & CO. LLC.
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One share of VMW stock can currently be purchased for approximately $140.07.

VMware has a market capitalization of $58.65 billion and generates $11.77 billion in revenue each year. The virtualization software provider earns $2.06 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.52 on an earnings per share basis.

VMware employs 34,000 workers across the globe.

The following companies are subsidiares of VMware: 3401 Hillview LLC, A.W.S. Holding LLC, AirWatch LLC, Akimbi Systems, Apteligent, Arkin, Arkinnet Software Private Limited, Avi Networks, B-hive Networks, Bitnami, Blue Lane Technologies, Boxer, Carbon Black, CloudCoreo, CloudHealth Technologies, CloudVelox, CloudVolumes, Desktone, Determina, Digital Fuel, DynamicOps, E8 Security, Heptio, Immidio, Integrien, Lastline, Nicira Inc., Nicira Networks, Nyansa, Octarine, PLUMgrid, PacketMotion Inc, Pivotal, SaltStack, Shavlik Technologies, SlideRocket, Socialcast, Spring, Taiwan VMware Information Technology LLC, Thinstall inc, TriCipher, VMware (Thailand) Co. Ltd., VMware AirWatch, VMware Australia Pty Ltd, VMware Belgium, VMware Bulgaria EOOD, VMware Canada Inc., VMware Costa Rica Ltda., VMware Denmark ApS, VMware Eastern Europe, VMware France SAS, VMware Global Inc., VMware Hong Kong Limited, VMware Information Technology (China) Co. Ltd, VMware International Limited, VMware International Marketing Limited, VMware Israel Ltd., VMware Italy S.r.l., VMware K.K., VMware Korea Co. Ltd., VMware Malaysia SDN. BHD., VMware Marketing Austria GmbH, VMware Middle East FZ-LLC, VMware NZ Company, VMware Netherlands B.V., VMware SD-WAN, VMware Saudi Limited, VMware Singapore Pte. Ltd., VMware Software India Private Limited, VMware Software e Serviços Brasil Ltda., VMware Spain S.L., VMware Sweden AB, VMware Switzerland GmbH, VMware Turkey Software Solutions and Services Company Limited, VMware UK Limited, VeloCloud Networks Private Limited, Velocloud Networks LLC, Virsto Software, Wanova, Wanova Technologies Ltd., WaveMaker, Wavefront, and Wavefront LLC.

VMware was founded in 1998.

The official website for VMware is www.vmware.com.

VMware is headquartered at 3401 HILLVIEW AVENUE, PALO ALTO CA, 94304.

VMware's mailing address is 3401 HILLVIEW AVENUE, PALO ALTO CA, 94304. The virtualization software provider can be reached via phone at (650) 427-5000 or via email at [email protected]