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 quarterly earnings results on Thursday, December, 5th. The company reported ($0.19) EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.32) by $0.13. The firm earned $76.40 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $76.37 million. Yext had a negative net margin of 37.85% and a negative return on equity of 56.29%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 30.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted ($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 issued an update on 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 estimate of ($0.08). The company issued revenue guidance of $79-81 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $83.92 million.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Yext's stock. Their forecasts range from $13.00 to $28.00. On average, they anticipate Yext's stock price to reach $20.21 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 29.3% 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.

News articles about YEXT stock have been trending positive on Monday, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Yext earned a media sentiment score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Yext.

Yext saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 8,210,000 shares, an increase of 30.7% from the November 28th total of 6,280,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 984,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 8.3 days. Approximately 8.5% 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 a price of $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's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional 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 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 $15.63.

Yext has a market capitalization of $1.79 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]