HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) Releases Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.740-1.760 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 2.010. The company issued revenue guidance of $697.0 million-$699.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $705.6 million. HubSpot also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 9.110-9.190 EPS.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of analysts have recently commented on HUBS shares. UBS Group lifted their price target on HubSpot from $740.00 to $775.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday. Raymond James lifted their target price on shares of HubSpot from $750.00 to $980.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday. Mizuho upped their price target on shares of HubSpot from $725.00 to $775.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, December 13th. Morgan Stanley lifted their price target on shares of HubSpot from $835.00 to $898.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday. Finally, Scotiabank boosted their price objective on shares of HubSpot from $700.00 to $825.00 and gave the stock a “sector outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, January 8th. Five analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twenty have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $854.63.

HubSpot Trading Up 5.5 %

HUBS stock traded up $43.12 during trading on Thursday, reaching $828.62. 750,000 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 468,762. HubSpot has a twelve month low of $434.84 and a twelve month high of $881.13. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $732.48 and its 200 day moving average is $617.71. The firm has a market cap of $42.77 billion, a P/E ratio of -3,069.41, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 43.94 and a beta of 1.72.

HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, February 12th. The software maker reported $0.20 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.18 by ($1.98). HubSpot had a negative return on equity of 1.16% and a negative net margin of 0.56%. As a group, analysts predict that HubSpot will post 0.42 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling at HubSpot

In other news, CTO Dharmesh Shah sold 25,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, November 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $672.62, for a total value of $16,815,500.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief technology officer now directly owns 1,323,145 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $889,973,789.90. This represents a 1.85 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, insider Brian Halligan sold 8,500 shares of HubSpot stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, November 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $661.59, for a total value of $5,623,515.00. Following the transaction, the insider now directly owns 513,698 shares in the company, valued at approximately $339,857,459.82. The trade was a 1.63 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last three months, insiders have sold 73,112 shares of company stock valued at $51,432,627. Corporate insiders own 4.50% of the company’s stock.

About HubSpot

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.