HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) Releases Earnings Results, Misses Expectations By $1.98 EPS

HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) issued its earnings results on Wednesday. The software maker reported $0.20 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.18 by ($1.98), Zacks reports. HubSpot had a negative net margin of 0.56% and a negative return on equity of 1.16%. HubSpot updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 1.740-1.760 EPS and its FY 2025 guidance to 9.110-9.190 EPS.

HubSpot Trading Up 8.0 %

NYSE:HUBS traded up $63.02 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $848.52. The stock had a trading volume of 262,450 shares, compared to its average volume of 450,073. HubSpot has a 1-year low of $434.84 and a 1-year high of $881.13. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $732.48 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $617.71. The company has a market cap of $43.80 billion, a PE ratio of -3,141.27, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 43.94 and a beta of 1.72.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several brokerages have weighed in on HUBS. BMO Capital Markets increased their target price on shares of HubSpot from $570.00 to $690.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 7th. KeyCorp raised shares of HubSpot from a “sector weight” rating to an “overweight” rating and set a $920.00 target price for the company in a research note on Thursday. Piper Sandler increased their target price on shares of HubSpot from $640.00 to $808.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday. Truist Financial reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $900.00 target price (up previously from $750.00) on shares of HubSpot in a research note on Thursday. Finally, Citigroup increased their price target on shares of HubSpot from $750.00 to $900.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twenty have issued a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, HubSpot has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $815.46.

Insider Buying and Selling at HubSpot

In other HubSpot news, CEO Yamini Rangan sold 115 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, December 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $713.79, for a total value of $82,085.85. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 61,179 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $43,668,958.41. This trade represents a 0.19 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, insider Brian Halligan sold 8,500 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, November 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $661.59, for a total transaction of $5,623,515.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now directly owns 513,698 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $339,857,459.82. This trade represents a 1.63 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 73,112 shares of company stock valued at $51,432,627 over the last 90 days. 4.50% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

HubSpot Company Profile

HubSpot, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform for businesses in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company's CRM platform includes Marketing Hub, a toolset for marketing automation and email, social media, SEO, and reporting and analytics; Sales Hub offers email templates and tracking, conversations and live chat, meeting and call scheduling, lead and website visit alerts, lead scoring, sales automation, pipeline management, quoting, forecasting, and reporting; Service Hub, a service software designed to help businesses manage, respond, and connect with customers; and Content Management Systems Hub enables businesses to create new and edit existing web content.