Elastic (ESTC) Received its Third Buy in a Row


After RBC Capital and Monness gave Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) a Buy rating last month, the company received another Buy, this time from Barclays. Analyst Raimo Lenschow maintained a Buy rating on Elastic yesterday and set a price target of $100.00. The company’s shares closed last Monday at $71.93.

According to TipRanks.com, Lenschow is a top 25 analyst with an average return of 19.2% and a 72.8% success rate. Lenschow covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Cornerstone Ondemand, Ceridian HCM Holding, and Slack Technologies.

Currently, the analyst consensus on Elastic is a Strong Buy with an average price target of $98.00, which is a 55.5% upside from current levels. In a report issued on February 24, Monness also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $130.00 price target.

See today’s analyst top recommended stocks >>

Based on Elastic’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending January 31, the company reported a quarterly GAAP net loss of $44.28 million. In comparison, last year the company had a GAAP net loss of $21.35 million.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 100 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is neutral on the stock.

TipRanks has tracked 36,000 company insiders and found that a few of them are better than others when it comes to timing their transactions. See which 3 stocks are most likely to make moves following their insider activities.

Elastic NV engages in the provision of open source search and analytics engine services. It offers Elastic Stack, which is a set of software products that ingest and store data from any source, in any format, and perform search, analysis, and visualization.

Stay Ahead of Everyone Else

Get The Latest Stock News Alerts