ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW) Posts Quarterly Earnings Results, Beats Expectations By $0.27 EPS

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday. The technology company reported $1.00 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.73 by $0.27, Zacks reports. ACI Worldwide had a net margin of 14.04% and a return on equity of 21.67%. ACI Worldwide updated its Q1 2025 guidance to EPS and its FY 2025 guidance to EPS.

ACI Worldwide Stock Up 7.7 %

Shares of ACIW traded up $3.89 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $54.47. The stock had a trading volume of 1,510,264 shares, compared to its average volume of 635,620. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.72, a current ratio of 1.56 and a quick ratio of 1.56. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $52.62 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $51.93. The company has a market cap of $5.71 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.82 and a beta of 1.20. ACI Worldwide has a 1-year low of $30.63 and a 1-year high of $59.71.

Insider Activity at ACI Worldwide

In other ACI Worldwide news, CTO Abraham Kuruvilla sold 5,400 shares of ACI Worldwide stock in a transaction on Friday, December 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $55.71, for a total value of $300,834.00. Following the transaction, the chief technology officer now directly owns 81,107 shares in the company, valued at approximately $4,518,470.97. The trade was a 6.24 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Insiders own 1.00% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, DA Davidson lowered shares of ACI Worldwide from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and upped their price objective for the stock from $57.00 to $60.00 in a report on Friday, November 8th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, ACI Worldwide has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $49.50.

About ACI Worldwide

ACI Worldwide, Inc, a software company, develops, markets, installs, and supports a range of software products and solutions for facilitating digital payments in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Banks, Merchants, and Billers. The company offers ACI Acquiring, a solution to process credit, debit, and prepaid card transactions, deliver digital innovation, and fraud prevention; ACI Issuing, a digital payment issuing solution for new payment offering; and ACI Enterprise Payments Platform that provides payment processing and orchestration capabilities for digital payments.