HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) Releases Earnings Results, Misses Expectations By $1.98 EPS

HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday. The software maker reported $0.20 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.18 by ($1.98), Zacks reports. HubSpot had a negative net margin of 0.56% and a negative return on equity of 1.16%. HubSpot updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 1.740-1.760 EPS and its FY 2025 guidance to 9.110-9.190 EPS.

HubSpot Stock Up 8.0 %

NYSE HUBS traded up $63.02 during trading on Thursday, hitting $848.52. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 262,450 shares, compared to its average volume of 450,073. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $732.48 and a 200 day moving average price of $617.71. The firm has a market cap of $43.80 billion, a P/E ratio of -3,141.27, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 43.94 and a beta of 1.72. HubSpot has a 52 week low of $434.84 and a 52 week high of $881.13.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other HubSpot news, insider Brian Halligan sold 8,500 shares of HubSpot stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, November 19th. The stock was 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 of the company’s stock, valued at $339,857,459.82. The trade was a 1.63 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, CTO Dharmesh Shah sold 25,000 shares of HubSpot 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 transaction, the chief technology officer now directly owns 1,323,145 shares in the company, valued at approximately $889,973,789.90. This represents a 1.85 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 73,112 shares of company stock valued at $51,432,627 in the last three months. Company insiders own 4.50% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities research analysts recently weighed in on the stock. Citigroup lifted their price objective on shares of HubSpot from $750.00 to $900.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday. Canaccord Genuity Group lifted their target price on HubSpot from $710.00 to $900.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday. Piper Sandler lifted their target price on HubSpot from $640.00 to $808.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Thursday. Needham & Company LLC lifted their target price on HubSpot from $730.00 to $900.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday. Finally, Evercore ISI lifted their target price on HubSpot from $610.00 to $700.00 and gave the stock an “in-line” rating in a report on Thursday, November 7th. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twenty have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, HubSpot has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $815.46.

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.