Rapid7 (NASDAQ:RPD) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Rapid7 (NASDAQ:RPD) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.720-1.850 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 2.330. The company issued revenue guidance of $860.0 million-$870.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $886.3 million. Rapid7 also updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 0.330-0.360 EPS.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of equities research analysts recently weighed in on RPD shares. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered their price target on shares of Rapid7 from $42.00 to $40.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday. Jefferies Financial Group started coverage on Rapid7 in a research note on Wednesday, October 16th. They set a “buy” rating and a $50.00 target price for the company. UBS Group cut their price target on Rapid7 from $59.00 to $52.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, November 7th. Citigroup lowered their price objective on Rapid7 from $50.00 to $46.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, January 17th. Finally, Truist Financial reduced their target price on Rapid7 from $40.00 to $38.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, November 7th. Fifteen analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $43.65.

Rapid7 Price Performance

NASDAQ:RPD traded down $1.14 during midday trading on Wednesday, reaching $36.79. 1,733,545 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 588,797. The firm has a market capitalization of $2.33 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 58.40 and a beta of 0.96. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $39.71 and a 200 day moving average price of $38.88. Rapid7 has a twelve month low of $32.94 and a twelve month high of $61.79.

Rapid7 (NASDAQ:RPD) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February 12th. The technology company reported $0.12 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.50 by ($0.38). Rapid7 had a net margin of 5.65% and a negative return on equity of 128.95%. On average, equities research analysts forecast that Rapid7 will post 0.98 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity at Rapid7

In other Rapid7 news, CEO Corey E. Thomas sold 100,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $39.38, for a total transaction of $3,938,000.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 431,469 shares in the company, valued at approximately $16,991,249.22. The trade was a 18.82 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. 2.60% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Rapid7 Company Profile

Rapid7, Inc provides cybersecurity solutions under the Rapid7, Nexpose, and Metasploit brand names. The company offers endpoint to cloud data collection and sharing applications, such as Rapid7 Insight Agent, a software-based agent that is used on assets across on-premises and cloud environments to centralize and monitor data on company's platform; Rapid7 Insight Network Sensor that analyzes raw end-to-end network traffic to increase visibility into user activity, pinpoint real threats, and investigations; Rapid7 Cloud Event Data Harvesting that offers visibility into changes made to cloud resources; and third-party integrations and ecosystem, as well as orchestration and automation solutions.