SAP SE (NYSE:SAP) Short Interest Down 15.0% in February

SAP SE (NYSE:SAP) saw a significant decrease in short interest during the month of February. As of February 27th, there was short interest totaling 3,670,473 shares, a decrease of 15.0% from the February 12th total of 4,318,981 shares. Approximately 0.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold. Based on an average daily volume of 2,186,355 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.7 days. Based on an average daily volume of 2,186,355 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.7 days. Approximately 0.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold.

SAP Trading Down 0.8%

Shares of SAP stock traded down $1.60 on Tuesday, hitting $190.03. 1,793,744 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,708,347. The stock has a market capitalization of $233.45 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 26.95, a P/E/G ratio of 2.13 and a beta of 1.18. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $212.57 and its 200 day simple moving average is $241.14. SAP has a one year low of $187.93 and a one year high of $313.28. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13, a quick ratio of 1.16 and a current ratio of 1.16.

SAP (NYSE:SAP) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January 29th. The software maker reported $1.90 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.77 by $0.13. SAP had a net margin of 19.92% and a return on equity of 16.54%. The business had revenue of $11.36 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $9.77 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.40 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 3.3% on a year-over-year basis. Equities analysts forecast that SAP will post 6.55 EPS for the current year.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On SAP

A number of large investors have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Windacre Partnership LLC increased its stake in shares of SAP by 130.9% in the third quarter. Windacre Partnership LLC now owns 2,357,225 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $629,874,000 after buying an additional 1,336,325 shares during the period. Fisher Asset Management LLC increased its position in shares of SAP by 9.0% in the second quarter. Fisher Asset Management LLC now owns 14,157,321 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $4,305,242,000 after acquiring an additional 1,163,616 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE increased its position in shares of SAP by 58.1% in the second quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 2,650,418 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $805,992,000 after acquiring an additional 973,779 shares during the period. Sustainable Growth Advisers LP raised its stake in shares of SAP by 1,126.3% during the third quarter. Sustainable Growth Advisers LP now owns 842,416 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $225,102,000 after acquiring an additional 773,720 shares during the last quarter. Finally, M&T Bank Corp boosted its holdings in shares of SAP by 1,582.7% during the fourth quarter. M&T Bank Corp now owns 817,295 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $198,529,000 after purchasing an additional 768,725 shares during the period.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several equities research analysts have issued reports on SAP shares. Santander upgraded shares of SAP to a “neutral” rating in a research report on Tuesday, February 3rd. Zacks Research cut shares of SAP from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, March 5th. Wall Street Zen downgraded shares of SAP from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, February 24th. Weiss Ratings raised SAP from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a research note on Friday, February 27th. Finally, Citigroup downgraded SAP from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, January 30th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twelve have given a Buy rating and six have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, SAP currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $305.75.

SAP News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting SAP this week:

• Positive Sentiment: SAP Concur launched AI agents to automate expense workflows and expanded its Amex/GBT partnership — a direct product upgrade that can boost Concur adoption and drive recurring cloud revenue. SAP Concur Adds AI Agents for Expense Automation, Expands AmexGBT Partnership
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA expanded an AI‑agent toolkit that includes integrations for SAP, widening SAP’s ecosystem exposure to GPU/AI infrastructure and enterprise agent use cases — potential acceleration for SAP’s AI platform monetization. Nvidia Expands AI Agent Ecosystem With New Toolkit for Adobe, SAP, Salesforce
• Positive Sentiment: KNAPP’s AeroBot app was built on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), showing continued partner adoption of SAP BTP for logistics/automation use cases — supports BTP consumption and partner ecosystem revenue. KNAPP Expands Software Portfolio with SAP BTP App
• Positive Sentiment: Prismforce’s skill‑management platform went live on the SAP Store, and NTT DATA won multiple SAP partner awards — continued partner victories and marketplace listings support ecosystem revenue. Prismforce Skill Management Platform Now Available on SAP Store NTT DATA Business Solutions receives five Global 2026 SAP Partner Awards
• Positive Sentiment: SAP was pre‑approved by the UAE Ministry of Finance for the national e‑invoicing framework — aids regional sales and compliance positioning in a growing digital invoicing market. SAP becomes first leading ERP provider pre-approved by UAE Ministry of Finance
• Neutral Sentiment: LatticeFlow partnered with SAP to provide AI risk and governance tooling — this strengthens SAP’s trust-and‑safety narrative for enterprise AI but is early-stage for monetization. LatticeFlow AI Enables Enterprises to Control AI Risk by Partnering with SAP
• Neutral Sentiment: SecurityBridge published a Cybersecurity Resilience Index for SAP (CRIS) after recent SAP‑related incidents — useful benchmarking for customers but also highlights security focus that could prompt remediation spend. SecurityBridge Releases the Cybersecurity Resilience Index for SAP (CRIS)
• Negative Sentiment: Coverage tying SAP’s AI push to Ariba procurement and Prismforce raised investor questions about how quickly AI initiatives will translate to material revenue — short‑term skepticism on AI monetization may weigh on valuation. SAP AI Push Links Ariba Procurement And Prismforce To Investor Questions
• Positive Sentiment: Trinetix joined the SAP PartnerEdge Service Track, expanding consulting reach for SAP implementations — incremental services/implementation revenue potential. Trinetix Joins SAP PartnerEdge Service Track

SAP Company Profile

SAP SE is a global enterprise software company headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. Founded in 1972 by five former IBM engineers, the company’s name is an acronym for Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung (Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing). SAP develops and sells software and services that help organizations manage business processes across finance, human resources, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain and customer relationships.

SAP’s product portfolio spans on‑premises and cloud offerings, anchored by its enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions such as SAP S/4HANA and the SAP HANA in‑memory database and platform.