Informatica (NYSE:INFA) Announces Quarterly Earnings Results, Misses Expectations By $0.17 EPS

Informatica (NYSE:INFA) issued its earnings results on Thursday. The technology company reported $0.21 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.38 by ($0.17), Zacks reports. Informatica had a net margin of 3.89% and a return on equity of 5.29%. Informatica updated its FY 2025 guidance to EPS and its Q1 2025 guidance to EPS.

Informatica Price Performance

Informatica stock traded down $0.95 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $25.16. The company had a trading volume of 4,459,514 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,234,002. Informatica has a fifty-two week low of $22.08 and a fifty-two week high of $39.80. The company has a current ratio of 2.17, a quick ratio of 2.17 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.75. The company has a market cap of $7.68 billion, a P/E ratio of 119.79, a P/E/G ratio of 3.65 and a beta of 0.99. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $25.84 and a 200 day simple moving average of $25.50.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research analysts have weighed in on the stock. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered their price target on shares of Informatica from $38.00 to $34.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, October 25th. Guggenheim reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $37.00 price target on shares of Informatica in a report on Friday, January 31st. UBS Group increased their price target on shares of Informatica from $27.00 to $30.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Thursday, October 31st. Truist Financial initiated coverage on shares of Informatica in a report on Thursday, December 12th. They set a “buy” rating and a $34.00 target price on the stock. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald initiated coverage on shares of Informatica in a report on Friday, January 17th. They set a “neutral” rating and a $29.00 target price on the stock. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have issued a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $32.92.

Insider Buying and Selling at Informatica

In related news, EVP John Arthur Schweitzer sold 10,734 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, December 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $27.05, for a total value of $290,354.70. Following the transaction, the executive vice president now owns 353,778 shares in the company, valued at $9,569,694.90. The trade was a 2.94 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CAO Mark Pellowski sold 10,035 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, December 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $27.06, for a total transaction of $271,547.10. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief accounting officer now owns 138,477 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,747,187.62. The trade was a 6.76 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Company insiders own 48.10% of the company’s stock.

Informatica announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase plan on Wednesday, October 30th that authorizes the company to repurchase $400.00 million in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the technology company to buy up to 5.1% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are usually a sign that the company’s board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Informatica Company Profile

Informatica Inc develops an artificial intelligence-powered platform that connects, manages, and unifies data across multi-vendor, multi-cloud, and hybrid systems at enterprise scale worldwide. Its platform includes a suite of interoperable data management products, including data integration products to ingest, transform, and integrate data; API and application integration products that enable users to create and manage APIs and integration processes for app-to-app synchronization, business process orchestration, B2B partner management, application development, and API management; data quality and observability products to profile, cleanse, standardize, observe, and monitor data to deliver accurate, complete, and consistent data; and master data management products to create an authoritative single source of truth of business-critical data.