Signaturefd LLC lifted its stake in shares of Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTNX – Free Report) by 57.8% during the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 956 shares of the technology company’s stock after acquiring an additional 350 shares during the quarter. Signaturefd LLC’s holdings in Nutanix were worth $57,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
A number of other large investors have also recently modified their holdings of NTNX. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its position in Nutanix by 1.4% during the 1st quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 25,087,143 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $1,548,378,000 after purchasing an additional 346,414 shares in the last quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD increased its position in Nutanix by 29.2% during the 1st quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 4,358,768 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $269,024,000 after purchasing an additional 985,421 shares during the period. Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P. raised its stake in Nutanix by 13.1% in the first quarter. Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P. now owns 3,988,923 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $246,196,000 after buying an additional 462,000 shares in the last quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC raised its position in shares of Nutanix by 7.4% in the 2nd quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 3,738,756 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $212,548,000 after acquiring an additional 256,156 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Nordea Investment Management AB lifted its stake in shares of Nutanix by 387.1% during the 1st quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 2,612,812 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $162,229,000 after purchasing an additional 2,076,377 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 85.25% of the company’s stock.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
A number of equities analysts have commented on the stock. Northland Securities boosted their target price on shares of Nutanix from $71.00 to $74.00 and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a report on Friday, August 30th. Needham & Company LLC restated a “buy” rating and issued a $80.00 target price on shares of Nutanix in a research note on Thursday, August 29th. Barclays upped their price target on Nutanix from $71.00 to $75.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, August 29th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price objective on Nutanix from $65.00 to $75.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, August 29th. Finally, Raymond James increased their price target on Nutanix from $76.00 to $85.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 29th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and thirteen have given a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $73.38.
Nutanix Price Performance
NTNX stock opened at $64.97 on Wednesday. The company has a market capitalization of $17.23 billion, a P/E ratio of -124.94, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 12.48 and a beta of 1.18. Nutanix, Inc. has a 12 month low of $34.80 and a 12 month high of $73.69. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $60.39 and its 200-day simple moving average is $58.44.
Nutanix (NASDAQ:NTNX – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 28th. The technology company reported ($0.06) earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.08) by $0.02. The company had revenue of $547.95 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $537.12 million. Nutanix had a negative return on equity of 7.57% and a negative net margin of 5.81%. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that Nutanix, Inc. will post 0.27 earnings per share for the current year.
Insider Buying and Selling at Nutanix
In other news, COO David Sangster sold 11,950 shares of Nutanix stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, September 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $59.83, for a total transaction of $714,968.50. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief operating officer now directly owns 123,868 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $7,411,022.44. The trade was a 0.00 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. In other Nutanix news, CFO Rukmini Sivaraman sold 24,316 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, September 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $58.85, for a total value of $1,430,996.60. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 192,169 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $11,309,145.65. This trade represents a 0.00 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, COO David Sangster sold 11,950 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, September 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $59.83, for a total value of $714,968.50. Following the completion of the sale, the chief operating officer now owns 123,868 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $7,411,022.44. This trade represents a 0.00 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 6.80% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
Nutanix Company Profile
Nutanix, Inc provides an enterprise cloud platform in North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. The company offers hyperconverged infrastructure software stack that converges virtualization, storage, and networking services into a turnkey solution; Acropolis Hypervisor, an enterprise-grade virtualization solution; flow virtual networking and flow network security, which offers services to visualize the network, automate common network operations, and build virtual private networks; Nutanix Kubernetes Engine for automated deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters to simplify the provisioning, operations, and lifecycle management of cloud-native environments, applications, and microservices; and Nutanix Cloud Clusters.
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