Informatica (NYSE:INFA) Releases Earnings Results, Misses Expectations By $0.17 EPS

Informatica (NYSE:INFA) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday. The technology company reported $0.21 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.38 by ($0.17), Zacks reports. Informatica had a return on equity of 5.29% and a net margin of 3.89%. The company had revenue of $428.31 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $457.55 million. Informatica updated its FY 2025 guidance to EPS and its Q1 2025 guidance to EPS.

Informatica Stock Performance

NYSE INFA traded down $5.59 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $19.59. The company had a trading volume of 27,929,388 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,038,936. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.75, a quick ratio of 2.17 and a current ratio of 2.17. Informatica has a 1-year low of $16.37 and a 1-year high of $39.80. The company has a market cap of $5.98 billion, a PE ratio of 93.27, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.65 and a beta of 0.99. The business has a 50 day moving average of $25.65 and a 200-day moving average of $25.46.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of research firms have recently weighed in on INFA. Robert W. Baird reaffirmed a “neutral” rating and set a $19.00 price objective (down previously from $35.00) on shares of Informatica in a research report on Friday. Royal Bank of Canada lowered Informatica from an “outperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating and cut their price objective for the stock from $35.00 to $19.00 in a research report on Friday. Bank of America lowered Informatica from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday. Baird R W lowered Informatica from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday. Finally, Truist Financial reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $24.00 target price (down previously from $34.00) on shares of Informatica in a report on Friday. Eleven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $26.17.

Informatica declared that its board has initiated a stock repurchase plan on Wednesday, October 30th that authorizes the company to repurchase $400.00 million in shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the technology company to reacquire up to 5.1% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are usually a sign that the company’s board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Insider Buying and Selling at Informatica

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

Informatica Company Profile

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.