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

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

Informatica Stock Down 30.6 %

Shares of INFA traded down $7.69 on Friday, hitting $17.48. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 4,360,092 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,314,058. The company has a quick ratio of 2.17, a current ratio of 2.17 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.75. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $25.84 and its 200-day moving average price is $25.50. Informatica has a fifty-two week low of $16.37 and a fifty-two week high of $39.80. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.34 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 82.60, a P/E/G ratio of 3.65 and a beta of 0.99.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities research analysts have weighed in on INFA shares. Royal Bank of Canada downgraded shares of Informatica from an “outperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating and decreased their price target for the stock from $35.00 to $19.00 in a research note on Friday. Cantor Fitzgerald assumed coverage on Informatica in a report on Friday, January 17th. They issued a “neutral” rating and a $29.00 price target for the company. Wells Fargo & Company reaffirmed an “equal weight” rating and issued a $19.00 price target (down from $34.00) on shares of Informatica in a report on Friday. UBS Group lifted their price target on Informatica from $27.00 to $30.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Thursday, October 31st. Finally, Robert W. Baird reaffirmed a “neutral” rating and issued a $19.00 price target (down from $35.00) on shares of Informatica in a report on Friday. Nine analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $27.92.

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

Insider Activity at Informatica

In other Informatica news, EVP John Arthur Schweitzer sold 10,734 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $27.05, for a total value of $290,354.70. Following the sale, the executive vice president now owns 353,778 shares in the company, valued at approximately $9,569,694.90. The trade was a 2.94 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, CAO Mark Pellowski sold 10,035 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $27.06, for a total value of $271,547.10. Following the completion of the sale, the chief accounting officer now owns 138,477 shares in the company, valued at $3,747,187.62. The trade was a 6.76 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 48.10% of the stock is 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.