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) announced its 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 had revenue of $76.40 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $76.37 million. Yext had a negative return on equity of 56.29% and a negative net margin of 37.85%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 30.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned ($0.12) earnings per share. View Yext's Earnings History.

Yext is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, March 4th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Yext.

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

7 equities research analysts have issued 12-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 22.9% 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.

Headlines about YEXT stock have trended extremely negative this week, InfoTrie reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Yext earned a daily sentiment score of -4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Yext.

Yext saw a increase in short interest in 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 volume of 1,060,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 8.2 days. Currently, 8.9% of the shares of the stock are short sold. 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'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, Gagnon Securities LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, New York State Common Retirement Fund, UBS Group AG, UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. and Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC. 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 purchased 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 $16.45.

Yext has a market capitalization of $1.89 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]