Informatica (NYSE:INFA) Releases Earnings Results, Misses Expectations By $0.17 EPS

Informatica (NYSE:INFA) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday. The technology company reported $0.21 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.38 by ($0.17), Zacks reports. Informatica had a net margin of 3.89% and a return on equity of 5.29%. Informatica updated its FY 2025 guidance to EPS and its Q1 2025 guidance to EPS.

Informatica Stock Down 22.2 %

Shares of NYSE INFA opened at $19.59 on Friday. Informatica has a 1 year low of $16.37 and a 1 year high of $39.80. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.75, a current ratio of 2.17 and a quick ratio of 2.17. The company has a market capitalization of $5.98 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 93.27, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.65 and a beta of 0.99. The business has a 50-day moving average of $25.65 and a two-hundred day moving average of $25.46.

Insider Activity

In other news, EVP John Arthur Schweitzer sold 10,734 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $27.05, for a total value of $290,354.70. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 353,778 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $9,569,694.90. The trade was a 2.94 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Also, CAO Mark Pellowski sold 10,035 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $27.06, for a total value of $271,547.10. Following the completion of the sale, the chief accounting officer now directly owns 138,477 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $3,747,187.62. The trade was a 6.76 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Company insiders own 48.10% of the company’s stock.

Informatica announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback program on Wednesday, October 30th that allows the company to buyback $400.00 million in shares. This buyback authorization allows the technology company to purchase up to 5.1% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often a sign that the company’s board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have recently weighed in on INFA. Truist Financial reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $24.00 price objective (down from $34.00) on shares of Informatica in a research note on Friday. The Goldman Sachs Group cut Informatica from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research note on Friday. Wells Fargo & Company reissued an “equal weight” rating and set a $19.00 target price (down from $34.00) on shares of Informatica in a research note on Friday. Baird R W cut Informatica from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft cut Informatica from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $21.00 target price for the company. in a research note on Friday. Eleven analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, Informatica currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $26.17.

About Informatica

Informatica Inc develops an artificial intelligence-powered platform that connects, manages, and unifies data across multi-vendor, multi-cloud, and hybrid systems at enterprise scale worldwide. Its platform includes a suite of interoperable data management products, including data integration products to ingest, transform, and integrate data; API and application integration products that enable users to create and manage APIs and integration processes for app-to-app synchronization, business process orchestration, B2B partner management, application development, and API management; data quality and observability products to profile, cleanse, standardize, observe, and monitor data to deliver accurate, complete, and consistent data; and master data management products to create an authoritative single source of truth of business-critical data.