NYSE:YEXT - Yext Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Yext Inc (NYSE:YEXT) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, December, 5th. The company reported ($0.19) EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.32) by $0.13. The company earned $76.40 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $76.37 million. Yext had a negative net margin of 37.85% and a negative return on equity of 56.29%. Yext's revenue was up 30.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned ($0.12) EPS. View Yext's Earnings History.

Yext is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, March 3rd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Yext.

Yext issued an update on its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, December, 5th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of ($0.15-0.13) for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of ($0.08). The company issued revenue guidance of $79-81 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $83.92 million.

7 brokerages have issued twelve-month price targets for Yext's stock. Their forecasts range from $13.00 to $28.00. On average, they expect Yext's share price to reach $20.21 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 28.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Yext.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Yext in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Yext.

Press coverage about YEXT stock has trended very negative on Tuesday, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Yext earned a coverage optimism score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Yext.

Yext saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 8,680,000 shares, an increase of 10.6% from the January 15th total of 7,850,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,060,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 8.2 days. Approximately 8.9% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Yext's Current Options Chain.

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(YEXT) raised $94 million in an IPO on Thursday, April 13th 2017. The company issued 10,500,000 shares at $8.00-$10.00 per share. Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and RBC Capital Markets acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Pacific Crest Securities (a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets) and Piper Jaffray were co-managers.

Yext's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Baillie Gifford & Co. (9.22%), Capital World Investors (8.03%), Champlain Investment Partners LLC (6.84%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (4.44%), Invus Financial Advisors LLC (3.61%) and Bamco Inc. NY (1.93%). Company insiders that own Yext stock include Andrew T Sheehan, Brian Distelburger, Charles Frumberg, Darryl Bond, Howard Lerman, Jim Steele, Julie Richardson, Michael Walrath, Nir Zuk, Phillip M Fernandez, Steven Cakebread and Tom Christopher Dixon. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Yext.

YEXT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, King Luther Capital Management Corp, Geode Capital Management LLC, Gagnon Securities LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, New York State Common Retirement Fund, UBS Group AG and UBS Asset Management Americas Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Yext company stock in the last year include Andrew T Sheehan, Brian Distelburger, Darryl Bond, Howard Lerman, Jim Steele, Julie Richardson, Nir Zuk, Phillip M Fernandez, Steven Cakebread and Tom Christopher Dixon. View Insider Buying and Selling for Yext.

YEXT stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Invus Financial Advisors LLC, Champlain Investment Partners LLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Baillie Gifford & Co., UBS Oconnor LLC, FMR LLC, Capital World Investors and Alliancebernstein L.P.. Company insiders that have bought Yext stock in the last two years include Andrew T Sheehan, Charles Frumberg and Michael Walrath. View Insider Buying and Selling for Yext.

Shares of YEXT 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 YEXT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $15.71.

Yext has a market capitalization of $1.80 billion and generates $228.28 million in revenue each year. The company earns $-74,840,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.76) on an earnings per share basis. Yext employs 900 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Yext.

The official website for Yext is http://www.yext.com/.

Yext's mailing address is 1 MADISON AVENUE 5TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY, 10010. The company can be reached via phone at 212-994-3900 or via email at [email protected]