HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) Updates Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.740-1.760 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 2.010. The company issued revenue guidance of $697.0 million-$699.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $705.6 million. HubSpot also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 9.110-9.190 EPS.

HubSpot Price Performance

Shares of HUBS traded up $0.39 during midday trading on Wednesday, reaching $784.84. The stock had a trading volume of 784,961 shares, compared to its average volume of 459,105. The company has a market cap of $40.51 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -2,906.71, a PEG ratio of 43.94 and a beta of 1.72. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $731.91 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $616.53. HubSpot has a 1-year low of $434.84 and a 1-year high of $811.79.

HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 12th. The software maker reported $0.20 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.18 by ($1.98). HubSpot had a negative net margin of 0.56% and a negative return on equity of 1.16%. On average, sell-side analysts forecast that HubSpot will post 0.42 earnings per share for the current year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities analysts have commented on HUBS shares. UBS Group lowered shares of HubSpot from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, January 17th. Wells Fargo & Company lifted their price target on shares of HubSpot from $810.00 to $835.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, February 4th. Royal Bank of Canada upped their price objective on shares of HubSpot from $750.00 to $825.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, January 3rd. Jefferies Financial Group lifted their target price on HubSpot from $860.00 to $900.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, February 3rd. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group upped their target price on HubSpot from $626.00 to $690.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 7th. Six analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and nineteen have issued a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, HubSpot currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $747.92.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, insider Brian Halligan sold 8,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, November 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $661.59, for a total value of $5,623,515.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now owns 513,698 shares in the company, valued at $339,857,459.82. This trade represents a 1.63 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, CEO Yamini Rangan sold 115 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $713.79, for a total transaction of $82,085.85. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 61,179 shares in the company, valued at $43,668,958.41. This represents a 0.19 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 73,112 shares of company stock valued at $51,432,627 over the last quarter. Company insiders own 4.50% of the company’s stock.

HubSpot Company Profile

HubSpot, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform for businesses in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company's CRM platform includes Marketing Hub, a toolset for marketing automation and email, social media, SEO, and reporting and analytics; Sales Hub offers email templates and tracking, conversations and live chat, meeting and call scheduling, lead and website visit alerts, lead scoring, sales automation, pipeline management, quoting, forecasting, and reporting; Service Hub, a service software designed to help businesses manage, respond, and connect with customers; and Content Management Systems Hub enables businesses to create new and edit existing web content.