The trading price of BlackLine Inc (NASDAQ:BL) floating lower at last check on current market day and closing at $52.26, -17.57% lower than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it has been fluctuating between $52.085 and $55.19. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period was 29.97, while its 5Y monthly beta was 0.896. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $69.31 and a 52-week low of $43.37. Over the past month, the stock has lost -7.37% in value.
BlackLine Inc, whose market valuation is $3.27 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report in March. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable. Analysts have predicted the quarterly earnings per share to grow by 0.4 per share this quarter, however they have predicted annual earnings per share of 2.04 for current year and 2.29 for next year.
Analysts have forecast the company to bring in revenue of 167.47M for the current quarter, with the likely lows of 166.93M and highs of 169.75M. From the analysts’ viewpoint, the consensus estimate for the company’s annual revenue is 703.14M.
On the technical side, indicators suggest BL has a 50% Buy on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 50% Buy, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 50% Sell.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned BL a recommendation rating is 4. Out of them, 3 rate it a Hold, while 1 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged BlackLine Inc (BL) as Underweight, while 0 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Hold, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
A quick review shows that BL’s price is currently -15.75% off the SMA20 and -15.49% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 27.71, and weekly volatility stands at 2.48%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 3.05%. BlackLine Inc (NASDAQ:BL)’s beta value is currently sitting at 0.99, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 2.53. With analysts defining $57-$70 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $63.5 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about -9.07% off the estimated low and -33.95% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if BL’s share price rises to $63.5, which is the median consensus price. At that level, BL’s share price would be -21.51% below current price.
To see how BlackLine Inc stock has been performing today in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: BL stock’s performance was -17.57% at last check in today’s session, and -15.63% in the past year. BlackLine Inc has a P/E ratio of 29.97.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of BlackLine Inc (NASDAQ:BL) indicates that the 3-month average is 575.28K. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 0.6.
Currently, records show that 62.44 million of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 18.30% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 88.46%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2025-01-31, stood at 4.74 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 8.38 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 928.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in January were down slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 4.76 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen -13.99% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even lower.
