Rapid7 (NASDAQ:RPD) Issues Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Rapid7 (NASDAQ:RPD) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided EPS guidance of 0.330-0.360 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 0.550. The company issued revenue guidance of $207.0 million-$209.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $214.4 million. Rapid7 also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 1.720-1.850 EPS.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities analysts have recently weighed in on RPD shares. StockNews.com upgraded Rapid7 from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, December 6th. Truist Financial reduced their price objective on shares of Rapid7 from $40.00 to $38.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, November 7th. Scotiabank upped their target price on shares of Rapid7 from $39.00 to $42.00 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 21st. Stifel Nicolaus reissued a “hold” rating and set a $42.00 price target (down previously from $48.00) on shares of Rapid7 in a research report on Friday, January 17th. Finally, Citigroup decreased their price objective on shares of Rapid7 from $50.00 to $46.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Friday, January 17th. Fifteen research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have given a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $43.65.

Rapid7 Trading Down 3.0 %

Shares of RPD stock traded down $1.14 on Wednesday, reaching $36.79. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,733,545 shares, compared to its average volume of 588,797. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $39.71 and its 200-day simple moving average is $38.88. Rapid7 has a 1 year low of $32.94 and a 1 year high of $61.79. The company has a market capitalization of $2.33 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 58.40 and a beta of 0.96.

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

Insider Activity

In other Rapid7 news, CEO Corey E. Thomas sold 100,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $39.38, for a total value of $3,938,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 431,469 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $16,991,249.22. This trade represents a 18.82 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Corporate insiders own 2.60% of the company’s stock.

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.