BlackLine, Inc. (NASDAQ:BL – Get Free Report) Director Barbara Whye sold 5,378 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, August 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $52.01, for a total transaction of $279,709.78. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now owns 6,777 shares in the company, valued at $352,471.77. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this link.
BlackLine Trading Down 0.4 %
NASDAQ BL traded down $0.20 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $51.99. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,189,402 shares, compared to its average volume of 974,865. The firm has a market capitalization of $3.21 billion, a P/E ratio of 227.48, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.32 and a beta of 0.86. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.08, a current ratio of 2.30 and a quick ratio of 2.30. BlackLine, Inc. has a 52-week low of $43.37 and a 52-week high of $69.31. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $47.29 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $55.32.
BlackLine (NASDAQ:BL – Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, August 6th. The technology company reported $0.58 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.50 by $0.08. BlackLine had a net margin of 2.30% and a return on equity of 9.07%. The business had revenue of $160.51 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $158.21 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted ($0.69) EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 11.0% on a year-over-year basis. Research analysts expect that BlackLine, Inc. will post 1.1 EPS for the current year.
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Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
Several brokerages recently issued reports on BL. Citigroup reduced their price objective on shares of BlackLine from $62.00 to $54.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, June 28th. William Blair raised BlackLine to a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday, May 7th. Robert W. Baird lowered their price objective on BlackLine from $72.00 to $65.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, August 7th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reduced their target price on BlackLine from $50.00 to $47.00 and set an “underweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, August 7th. Finally, Piper Sandler lowered their price target on BlackLine from $55.00 to $51.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, August 7th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have issued a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, BlackLine presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $58.78.
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About BlackLine
BlackLine, Inc provides cloud-based solutions to automate and streamline accounting and finance operations worldwide. It offers financial close management solutions, such as account reconciliations that provides a centralized workspace for users to collaborate on account reconciliations; transaction matching that analyzes and reconciles individual transactions; task management to create and manage processes and task lists; and financial reporting analytics that enables analysis and validation of financial data.
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