Capital One Financial Weighs in on HubSpot FY2025 Earnings

HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) – Capital One Financial upped their FY2025 earnings estimates for shares of HubSpot in a research note issued on Wednesday, February 12th. Capital One Financial analyst C. Murphy now anticipates that the software maker will earn $0.96 per share for the year, up from their prior forecast of $0.95. The consensus estimate for HubSpot’s current full-year earnings is $0.42 per share.

A number of other research analysts have also recently weighed in on the company. Oppenheimer lifted their target price on HubSpot from $850.00 to $900.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, February 13th. UBS Group boosted their target price on HubSpot from $740.00 to $775.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Thursday, February 13th. Bank of America raised their price target on shares of HubSpot from $780.00 to $850.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, December 16th. Mizuho lifted 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. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group increased their price objective on shares of HubSpot from $783.00 to $900.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, February 13th. Five analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twenty have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $863.96.

HubSpot Stock Down 1.1 %

Shares of NYSE HUBS opened at $802.76 on Monday. The stock has a market capitalization of $41.44 billion, a PE ratio of -2,973.09, a P/E/G ratio of 43.94 and a beta of 1.72. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $737.03 and a 200-day moving average of $625.43. HubSpot has a 52-week low of $434.84 and a 52-week high of $881.13.

HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, February 12th. The software maker reported $0.20 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.18 by ($1.98). HubSpot had a negative net margin of 0.56% and a negative return on equity of 1.16%.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On HubSpot

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in HUBS. Wellington Management Group LLP boosted its holdings in HubSpot by 5.3% in the fourth quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 1,477,190 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $1,029,262,000 after purchasing an additional 74,990 shares during the period. Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its position in shares of HubSpot by 1.2% in the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 830,405 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $577,572,000 after buying an additional 9,922 shares during the last quarter. Groupama Asset Managment boosted its holdings in shares of HubSpot by 3.8% in the 4th quarter. Groupama Asset Managment now owns 726,799 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $506,412,000 after buying an additional 26,799 shares during the period. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA grew its position in shares of HubSpot by 18.3% during the 4th quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 676,074 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $471,068,000 after buying an additional 104,800 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Bank of New York Mellon Corp raised its stake in HubSpot by 3.8% during the fourth quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 674,523 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $469,987,000 after acquiring an additional 24,799 shares during the period. 90.39% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Insider Transactions at HubSpot

In other HubSpot news, CTO Dharmesh Shah sold 25,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, December 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $739.89, for a total transaction of $18,497,250.00. Following the sale, the chief technology officer now owns 1,272,077 shares in the company, valued at $941,197,051.53. This represents a 1.93 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. Also, CEO Yamini Rangan sold 115 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, December 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $713.79, for a total value of $82,085.85. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 61,179 shares in the company, valued at approximately $43,668,958.41. This represents a 0.19 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 39,612 shares of company stock valued at $28,993,612. 4.50% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

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.