NYSE:YEXTYext Stock Price, Forecast & News

Yext's stock was trading at $13.40 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, YEXT shares have increased by 32.8% and is now trading at $17.79. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Yext in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Yext.

Yext is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, September 3rd 2020. View our earnings forecast for Yext.

Yext Inc (NYSE:YEXT) released its earnings results on Thursday, June, 4th. The company reported ($0.10) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.12) by $0.02. The business had revenue of $85.40 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $82.14 million. Yext had a negative net margin of 41.78% and a negative return on equity of 63.32%. Yext's revenue for the quarter was up 23.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned ($0.05) EPS. View Yext's earnings history.

Yext updated its second quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, June, 4th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of ($0.13)-($0.11) for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of ($0.14). The company issued revenue guidance of $84-$86 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $82.11 million.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Yext's stock. Their forecasts range from $12.00 to $25.00. On average, they expect Yext's stock price to reach $18.72 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 5.2% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Yext.

News stories about YEXT stock have been trending very negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Yext earned a news impact score of -3.8 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 company's share price in the near future. View the latest news about Yext.

Yext saw a decline in short interest during the month of June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 6,800,000 shares, a decline of 7.9% from the May 31st total of 7,380,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,150,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.9 days. Currently, 7.1% of the company's shares are short sold. View Yext's Current Options Chain.

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(YEXT) raised $94 million in an initial public offering 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 served as the underwriters for the IPO and Pacific Crest Securities (a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets) and Piper Jaffray were co-managers.

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

Yext's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Diversified Trust Co (0.03%). 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Diversified Trust Co. Company insiders that have bought Yext stock in the last two years include Charles Frumberg, and Michael Walrath. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $17.79.

Yext has a market capitalization of $2.09 billion and generates $298.83 million in revenue each year. The company earns $-121,540,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($1.09) on an earnings per share basis. Yext employs 1,200 workers across the globe.

The official website for Yext is 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]