BlackLine, Inc. (NASDAQ:BL – Get Free Report) CRO Mark Woodhams sold 1,387 shares of BlackLine stock in a transaction on Wednesday, August 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $51.70, for a total transaction of $71,707.90. Following the transaction, the executive now owns 97,582 shares in the company, valued at approximately $5,044,989.40. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink.
BlackLine Stock Down 2.8 %
NASDAQ BL traded down $1.40 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $49.50. 664,948 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 968,042. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.08, a current ratio of 2.30 and a quick ratio of 2.30. The company has a market cap of $3.06 billion, a PE ratio of 219.48, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.32 and a beta of 0.86. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is $47.92 and its 200-day simple moving average is $55.00. BlackLine, Inc. has a 52 week low of $43.37 and a 52 week high of $69.31.
BlackLine (NASDAQ:BL – Get Free Report) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, August 6th. The technology company reported $0.58 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.50 by $0.08. The business had revenue of $160.51 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $158.21 million. BlackLine had a return on equity of 9.07% and a net margin of 2.30%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 11.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned ($0.69) EPS. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that BlackLine, Inc. will post 1.1 earnings per share for the current year.
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Institutional Trading of BlackLine
A number of institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in BL. Cetera Investment Advisers raised its stake in BlackLine by 5.6% in the 2nd quarter. Cetera Investment Advisers now owns 25,701 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $1,245,000 after acquiring an additional 1,357 shares during the last quarter. Quarry LP purchased a new position in shares of BlackLine during the 2nd quarter valued at about $32,000. Algert Global LLC purchased a new position in shares of BlackLine during the 2nd quarter valued at about $255,000. Clearline Capital LP purchased a new position in shares of BlackLine during the 2nd quarter valued at about $7,673,000. Finally, Susquehanna Fundamental Investments LLC raised its stake in shares of BlackLine by 430.5% during the 2nd quarter. Susquehanna Fundamental Investments LLC now owns 90,403 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $4,380,000 after buying an additional 73,362 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 95.13% of the company’s stock.
About BlackLine
BlackLine, Inc provides cloud-based solutions to automate and streamline accounting and finance operations worldwide. It offers financial close management solutions, such as account reconciliations that provides a centralized workspace for users to collaborate on account reconciliations; transaction matching that analyzes and reconciles individual transactions; task management to create and manage processes and task lists; and financial reporting analytics that enables analysis and validation of financial data.
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