Cantor Fitzgerald Comments on Informatica FY2025 Earnings

Informatica Inc. (NYSE:INFA) – Equities research analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald issued their FY2025 earnings estimates for shares of Informatica in a report released on Tuesday, January 21st. Cantor Fitzgerald analyst T. Blakey forecasts that the technology company will post earnings of $0.70 per share for the year. Cantor Fitzgerald currently has a “Hold” rating and a $29.00 target price on the stock. The consensus estimate for Informatica’s current full-year earnings is $0.43 per share.

A number of other brokerages have also recently issued reports on INFA. Truist Financial initiated coverage on shares of Informatica in a research note on Thursday, December 12th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $34.00 price target on the stock. JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped their price target on shares of Informatica from $38.00 to $34.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, October 25th. Guggenheim reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Informatica in a research note on Friday, October 18th. Finally, UBS Group upped their price target on shares of Informatica from $27.00 to $30.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday, October 31st. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have assigned a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $32.92.

Informatica Stock Performance

Shares of Informatica stock opened at $24.91 on Wednesday. The stock has a market cap of $7.61 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 118.60, a PEG ratio of 3.50 and a beta of 0.99. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $26.03 and its 200 day moving average is $25.57. Informatica has a 1 year low of $22.08 and a 1 year high of $39.80. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.75, a current ratio of 2.17 and a quick ratio of 2.17.

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

Insider Activity

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

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Informatica

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Wellington Management Group LLP increased its holdings in Informatica by 29.9% in the 3rd quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 11,564,047 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $292,339,000 after acquiring an additional 2,662,379 shares in the last quarter. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC grew its holdings in Informatica by 398.9% during the 3rd quarter. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC now owns 7,042,961 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $178,046,000 after buying an additional 5,631,139 shares in the last quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. grew its holdings in Informatica by 826.8% during the 3rd quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 1,484,147 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $37,519,000 after buying an additional 1,324,006 shares in the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC grew its holdings in Informatica by 34.5% during the 3rd quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 1,213,188 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $30,677,000 after buying an additional 311,003 shares in the last quarter. Finally, State Street Corp grew its holdings in Informatica by 25.1% during the 3rd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 1,051,013 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $26,570,000 after buying an additional 210,843 shares in the last quarter. 98.45% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

About Informatica

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.