William Blair Has Positive Estimate for BOX FY2025 Earnings

Box, Inc. (NYSE:BOX) – William Blair increased their FY2025 earnings per share estimates for shares of BOX in a report issued on Wednesday, December 4th. William Blair analyst J. Ader now forecasts that the software maker will post earnings of $0.23 per share for the year, up from their previous forecast of $0.17. William Blair has a “Outperform” rating on the stock. The consensus estimate for BOX’s current full-year earnings is $0.34 per share. William Blair also issued estimates for BOX’s Q4 2025 earnings at $0.04 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $0.24 EPS.

A number of other equities analysts have also weighed in on the stock. Morgan Stanley lifted their price objective on shares of BOX from $33.00 to $36.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, December 4th. Citigroup increased their price target on shares of BOX from $34.00 to $40.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, December 4th. Royal Bank of Canada reaffirmed an “underperform” rating and issued a $21.00 price objective on shares of BOX in a report on Wednesday, December 4th. UBS Group increased their target price on BOX from $34.00 to $42.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, December 4th. Finally, StockNews.com downgraded BOX from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have issued a hold rating and seven have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $34.00.

BOX Trading Up 1.4 %

NYSE:BOX opened at $32.50 on Monday. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $33.04 and its 200-day simple moving average is $29.96. BOX has a 12-month low of $23.78 and a 12-month high of $35.74. The firm has a market cap of $4.65 billion, a P/E ratio of 40.63 and a beta of 0.86.

Insider Activity at BOX

In other news, CFO Dylan C. Smith sold 13,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, November 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $34.21, for a total value of $444,730.00. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 1,461,509 shares in the company, valued at $49,998,222.89. This represents a 0.88 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, Director Jack R. Lazar sold 2,500 shares of BOX stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, November 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $34.75, for a total value of $86,875.00. Following the sale, the director now owns 26,697 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $927,720.75. This represents a 8.56 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last three months, insiders have sold 51,500 shares of company stock valued at $1,711,135. Insiders own 4.10% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in BOX. Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. acquired a new position in shares of BOX in the third quarter valued at approximately $36,000. Quarry LP raised its holdings in BOX by 324.6% in the 2nd quarter. Quarry LP now owns 1,418 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $37,000 after acquiring an additional 1,084 shares during the last quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC lifted its stake in shares of BOX by 143.1% during the 3rd quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 1,337 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $44,000 after purchasing an additional 787 shares during the period. Toronto Dominion Bank acquired a new stake in shares of BOX during the second quarter worth $53,000. Finally, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC grew its position in shares of BOX by 31.7% in the second quarter. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC now owns 2,627 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $69,000 after purchasing an additional 632 shares during the period. 86.74% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

About BOX

Box, Inc provides a cloud content management platform that enables organizations of various sizes to manage and share their content from anywhere on any device. The company's Software-as-a-Service platform enables users to work with their content as they need from secure external collaboration and sharing, workspaces and portals, e-signature processes, and content workflows improving employee productivity and accelerating business processes.