NYSE:YEXTYext Stock Price, Forecast & News

Yext's stock was trading at $13.40 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, YEXT shares have increased by 31.3% and is now trading at $17.60. 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) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, June, 4th. The company reported ($0.10) earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.12) by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $85.40 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $82.14 million. Yext had a negative return on equity of 63.32% and a negative net margin of 41.78%. Yext's revenue for the quarter was up 23.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned ($0.05) earnings per share. View Yext's earnings history.

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

10 analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Yext's shares. Their forecasts range from $12.00 to $25.00. On average, they anticipate Yext's stock price to reach $18.72 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 6.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Yext.

News articles about YEXT stock have trended very negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring 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 -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View the latest news about Yext.

Yext saw a drop in short interest in June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 6,800,000 shares, a drop 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 currently 5.9 days. Currently, 7.1% of the company's shares 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 a price of $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 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "YEXT."

Yext's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders 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 bought 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 $17.60.

Yext has a market capitalization of $2.07 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]