| To: Johnny Canuck who wrote (62522) | 2/19/2025 3:57:12 AM | | From: Johnny Canuck | | | | Looking at the MAG7 as no new high is going to set with some of the MAG7 participating.
APPL negating the short and intermediate sell signal but it has some work to do to set a new 52 week high.
AMZN on a short sell signal and intermediate sell signal setup.
AVGO waiting near the 52 week high.
GOOGL setting new 52 week high.
META seeing some profit taking after 20 consecutive up days in a row. 
Watch to see if the 693 level is broken to set up a short term sell signal setup.
MSFT on a sell signal in all timeframes.
NVDA looking to test the 52 week high. Earnings may cap the move till next week.
TSLA on a short and intermediate sell signal.
New 52 week high on SP500 and COMPQ indicates the strength in stocks in broadening as some of the MAG7 are weak. Expect some profit taking but not a black swan event yet. A 10 to 15 percent correct would health right now.
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| To: Johnny Canuck who wrote (62523) | 2/19/2025 3:59:27 AM | | From: Johnny Canuck | | | | Meta's stock closes down, snapping 20-session winning streak
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Meta's (META) stock fell Tuesday, ending its 20-session winning streak on Wall Street. Shares of the social media giant fell more than 2.76%, its worst day since Dec. 18. The positive streak stretched back to mid-January and continued through President Trump's inauguration, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg attended, and the company's earnings on Jan. 29.
Meta's stock is up 17% over the last month and 22% year to date.
The company's stock continued to rally even as Zuckerberg said Meta will spend upwards of $65 billion building on capital expenditures related to AI data centers this year, a significant increase from $40 billion the company said it would spend in 2024.
Zuckerberg says plans include constructing a data center in Richland Parish, La., large enough to cover a massive chunk of Manhattan.
Meta's wins come as the rest of its Big Tech counterparts struggle in the early weeks of 2025. Shares of Google parent Alphabet ( GOOG, GOOGL), Apple ( AAPL), and Microsoft ( MSFT) are each down more than 2% on the year, while Tesla ( TSLA) is off more than 12%. Amazon's ( AMZN) stock is up more than 3% year to date but off 1.7% over the last month.
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Meta has a few key elements going in its favor, chief among them a sense that the company's investments in artificial intelligence are paying off better than those of its Big Tech rivals like Google and Microsoft.
“They've used [their AI investments] largely to drive their business where … other companies have been trying to be a little bit more all things to all people,” Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst at ZK Research, told Yahoo Finance in an interview last week.
Meta is pouring cash into technologies that help power its advertising business and keep users scrolling through their feeds.
“Improvements to our AI-driven feed and video recommendations have led to an 8% increase in time spent on Facebook and a 6% increase on Instagram this year alone,” Zuckerberg explained during the company’s Q3 earnings call in October.
And during Meta’s Q4 call, CFO Susan Li said 4 million advertisers are using the company’s generative AI tools to create ads, up from 1 million six months ago. All of that makes AI an easier sell for investors.
Meta also got a boost from AI startup DeepSeek, which revealed its own open-source AI model it says can rival the best of what ChatGPT and other high-value Silicon Valley AI companies have to offer. The fact that DeepSeek offers its AI as open-source software seemed to validate Zuckerberg's decision to do the same with Meta's Llama models.
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| To: Johnny Canuck who wrote (62524) | 2/19/2025 4:33:30 AM | | From: Johnny Canuck | | | | Too soon to say it is a massive trend yet, but with the US making some many wave countries are going to be looking for others currencies or gold to settle trades in. An unreliable and volatile trade partner lead to a volatile currency of that partner. Also less trade due to tariffs means less demand for the currency.
The question right now is: "Did the US just accelerate the rate at which other countries will be migrating away from the US dollar?"
Oil is already being settle in gold and other currencies due to the sanctions on Russian and gold and oil being tied to the US dollar are two of the key drivers of the need for US dollars.
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China’s holdings of Treasuries have fallen to their lowest level since 2009, as Beijing holds more of its US government bonds through lower-profile accounts and diversifies into alternative assets.
The value of US sovereign debt held by Chinese investors fell by $57bn to $759bn in 2024, data published by the US Treasury on Tuesday showed. This does not include Chinese-owned Treasuries held in accounts in other countries.
Analysts say the change partly reflects China’s desire to diversify its foreign reserves by buying assets such as gold. But they add that Beijing is seeking to disguise the true extent of its Treasury holdings by shifting them to custodian accounts registered elsewhere.
“China made a decision around 2010 that holding Treasuries was a risk, it looked bad optically that so much of China’s wealth was in the hands of a geopolitical rival,” said Brad Setser, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former US Treasury official.
The decline in China’s holdings was likely to have been exaggerated by some assets being moved to securities depositaries such as Belgium-based Euroclear and Luxembourg-based Clearstream, added Setser, which would boost those countries’ holdings in the official data.
“It has become more difficult over time to track what China is doing and how Chinese flows are impacting global markets,” he said.
Shifts in foreign ownership of Treasuries are closely watched given the US government’s need to finance a vast budget deficit at a time when its central bank is reducing its own holdings of government debt.
China’s reported holdings of Treasuries have fallen by about $550bn since peaking in 2011. UK holdings climbed by $34.2bn in 2024, while Belgian holdings have increased by $60.2bn, and Luxembourg’s holdings gained $84bn. Japan remains the largest holder with more than $1tn.
“Not all US Treasuries held by China are directly hosted in the US institutions,” said a person familiar with the management of China’s foreign reserves. Beijing holds part of its reserve assets through entities such as Euroclear or Clearstream “for the purpose of risk diversification”, they said.
“That said, China’s overall holdings of US Treasury bonds will slowly decrease, the trend is clear, as China continues to diversify its reserve assets,” the person added.
Mark Sobel, US chair of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, said the People’s Bank of China had been increasing its exposure to other assets such as gold, typically seen as a haven in times of economic and market stress.
The price of bullion has jumped by about 12 per cent so far this year, in a sign of increasing demand among big buyers. Data from the World Gold Council showed China was the third-biggest buyer of gold in the final three months of 2024, adding 15.24 tonnes to its reserves.
However, while the PBoC’s holdings of gold jumped 13 per cent over the past two years, bullion still represents a relatively small portion of the central bank’s total reserves.
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Sobel said the fall in Treasury holdings did not necessarily mean China was selling out of dollar assets in general. Some analysts say China has been increasing purchases of other safe US debt such as agency bonds. Changes in the value of Chinese Treasury holdings also reflect fluctuations in the bonds’ market value.
“Whether they have reduced overall dollar holdings I don’t know, but they are definitely investing in a broader array of instruments through different vehicles,” said Sobel.
The jump in UK holdings of Treasuries had been driven by the flow of money from foreign sovereign wealth funds, wealthy families and hedge funds through London, said analysts, while a similar dynamic was also playing out in Belgium.
Given that yields on gilts are above those on Treasuries, the buyers of Treasuries in the UK are unlikely to be British investors, but rather “it has to do with foreign money [including] Middle Eastern money”, said Andy Brenner, head of international fixed income at NatAlliance.
Setser said hedge funds were likely holding US Treasuries in the UK as part of the so-called basis trade, a highly leveraged strategy in which funds buy US bonds and sell futures to profit from small price differences.
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| To: Johnny Canuck who wrote (62525) | 2/19/2025 4:43:55 AM | | From: Johnny Canuck | | | | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2025
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As U.S.-China tensions heat up, Western tech companies are migrating their supply chains away from China. Producer Julie Chang talks with China tech reporter and editor Liza Lin about what that means for everything from artificial intelligence servers to consumer electronics. Plus, why Meta’s AI-powered Ray-Ban glasses are gaining traction with visually impaired users. Charlotte Gartenberg hosts.
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Charlotte Gartenberg: Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, February 19th. I'm Charlotte Gartenberg for the Wall Street Journal. Meta's artificial intelligence-powered Ray-Bans are designed for the general public. We'll hear about why they're gaining traction with visually impaired customers. Then, a growing number of Western tech companies are saying, "ABC, anything but China," as US-Chinese tensions rise and many multinationals shift production out of the country. But could this supply chain migration be permanent? Our China tech reporter and editor, Liza Lin, tells us what it means for both China and the US. But first, Meta's AI Ray-Bans are appealing to a growing group of blind users. The smart specs retail for $300 and look, well, like regular Ray-Bans, but integrated into them is a camera, microphone and speakers as well as an AI assistant. While users say there are benefits when it comes to everyday tasks, some critics have safety concerns. Tom Gryta, a tech editor at the Wall Street Journal is here now with more. So Tom, what are people using these glasses for?
Tom Gryta: Actually, a lot of people who are visually impaired, they're using them to see objects around them. You might use it to open your freezer or your fridge to help identify what's there so you don't need someone else to help you do that. They can identify the difference between regular Coke and Diet Coke simply by asking the assistant, and it uses the camera and the AI that's integrated to identify what's in front of you.
Charlotte Gartenberg: And this one woman, Allison Pomeroy, was talking about how she was using it for things like reading a menu.
Tom Gryta: Oh yeah, totally. You could read a menu, it can help you sort your laundry. Her in particular, she uses it to help her read books to her granddaughter as well as getting everyday stuff, what time it is, and what the temperature is outside by asking the assistant and then it would just tell her.
Charlotte Gartenberg: Wow, that sounds like a potential game changer. But what are some of the safety concerns according to some of the critics?
Tom Gryta: These glasses were not designed for medical use, right? This isn't like a medical device. So experts warn that you just have to be careful with that. They could be distracting, you could be using them and you're walking, and that could be dangerous because it takes up some of your brain power to be managing this thing. And also because it is powered by AI, AI is not perfect. So there could be errors or so-called hallucinations, as they say in the AI world. And unfortunately because your vision is impaired, you wouldn't know that. And so it might give you wrong information and you're acting on it, which could be risky. There's certainly some skeptics who think that this needs more testing. This is more of a consumer product being used for more of a medical use.
Charlotte Gartenberg: And what has Meta's response been to this new use of its glasses?
Tom Gryta: Meta told us that they try to build products with accessibility in mind, but they did not predict the impact that these Ray-Bans would have on visually impaired people. Once they started to hear about this from those kinds of users and their supporters, they saw that this was a use case that was important and started to look into ways to improve the product. Meta partnered with a company called Be My Eyes, that has a free app that connects people with poor vision through video calls using volunteers that can help them find what they need. What Meta did was integrate this app into the glasses itself so that people who are visually impaired can use the app through the glasses. So you would say, "Hey, Meta," whatever it is you're trying to do by using Be My Eyes, and the volunteer would see through the camera on the glasses and be telling you through the speakers on the glasses what is in front of you, so you could then be hands-free. You don't have to hold the phone anymore. For someone who's visually impaired, that's a significant advancement.
Charlotte Gartenberg: That was Tom Gryta, a tech editor at the Wall Street Journal. Coming up western tech companies are shifting production out of China, perhaps for good, how this could impact everything from AI servers to consumer electronics. After the break. Tensions between the US and China are heating up, and that's leading tech companies to accelerate their decoupling with China. In the past, companies moved only the assembly of products outside the country. Now, businesses are shifting whole factories making components. WSJ China tech reporter and editor Liza Lin spoke to TNB producer Julie Chang about this new anything but China trend among western tech companies. Here's their conversation.
Julie Chang: So Liza, before companies moved only the assembly of products outside of China. Now it sounds like they're shifting whole factories there. Is that right?
Liza Lin: Yeah, so Julie, I think we're seeing two different things happening here with the supply chain shift from China. The first thing we're seeing is companies who are moving assembly of their products outside. To give you some background, supply chains shifting from China isn't a very immediate and very recent thing. Supply chains have been pretty much starting to migrate since the first Trump Administration and just after the pandemic, we saw a huge wave of companies moving out because China's COVID lockdowns had caused production snarls in a lot of products, everything from iPhones to cars. What we're seeing this time around though that's hugely important is it's not just the assembly of products that are moving, it's the supply chain supporting that assembly that's also moving with it. So you think about if you're just making electronics, think about stuff like sensors that are moving, power electronics, printed circuit boards. All these are the components that go into consumer electronics such as laptops. So all these factories are moving out of China as well. And according to an analyst report, these moves pretty much make the relocation in supply chains away from China much more permanent and irreversible because of heavy upfront investment in machinery and parts. The second wave is really driven by geopolitical tension and friction. Because of the US imposing export controls on advanced chips to China, what you're seeing is certain products that contain such chips cannot be made in China anymore.
Julie Chang: What are some of the challenges associated with moving factories out of China?
Liza Lin: There are multiple challenges associated with this. Think about it. When you're moving the supply chain away from China, you're pretty much redrawing your entire supply chain, a supply chain that in the past has worked very efficiently for you and at a very low cost. So the first thing you need to think about is when you move your factories, you need to find logistic networks to bring your components in and to deliver your products out, you need to find new suppliers that can supply you at that new location. You need to adjust to a new working culture. So the challenges are multifold. Firstly, it's the cost of investment, the cost of moving, and then you have the additional things that rack up. If something goes wrong, you have production stoppages or delivery delays, and all these add cost as well.
Julie Chang: So a lot of these companies are moving their factories to Southeast Asia. Why there?
Liza Lin: So Southeast Asia is attractive for a few reasons. The biggest reason is the cost. Southeast Asia still isn't a very expensive place to manufacture in, and it's pretty close to China. That's the other reason. Southeast Asia is great for assembly, but it still doesn't have a component ecosystem. So a lot of the supply for the components still need to come from places like the south of China. So Southeast Asia has an edge because it's easy to ship components down from China to Southeast Asia. On top of that, you have lower energy costs, you have lower water cost, utility cost, so all that just makes Southeast Asia a very attractive region for manufacturers.
Julie Chang: And in your reporting, you found that many Chinese companies are also moving out of China and overseas. Why is that?
Liza Lin: It's because when you move factories, you also want to move your suppliers to the vicinity of a factory. And the supplier ecosystem, like the one you have in China, isn't easily replicated outside of China. It took China decades to become this manufacturing powerhouse, and China isn't just known for making one particular widget, it's known for making all sorts of variations of this particular widget. And you don't get that in Southeast Asia or Mexico or any of the other places that have become alternative manufacturing locations. So a lot of the Western manufacturers, for lack of better suppliers in the new places they're producing in, they've asked the Chinese manufacturers to move out and keep supplying the components to them. Let me give you an example of a company that I came across. And there many of these Chinese companies, you can see a lot of these statements in their filings to the stock exchange. One example I found was this company called Eoptolink Technology. It's a Chengdu based maker of optical transceivers for data centers. It expanded its Thailand factory just to increase supplies to overseas customers, and many of their overseas customers are major tech companies such as Meta and AWS. And the idea was to increase supply to them to avoid any fallout from worsening geopolitical relations.
Julie Chang: So companies moving factories out of China and to Southeast Asia. How big of a hit is this for China?
Liza Lin: It's hard to quantify the scale of the hit, but what's really important to note is that the Chinese economy, it's in its doldrums and it is actually suffering the worst economic growth in decades. And China's plan to get out of that slow down is to rely on more manufacturing. And in this case, manufacturing is leaving China and taking jobs that would've gone into China away to the new locations with them. All in all, it's not a good sign for China.
Julie Chang: And how big of a hit is this for American companies doing business with Chinese companies?
Liza Lin: Firstly, there's definitely the cost factor. I spoke to one supplier in Malaysia that supplies to chip equipment makers such as Applied Materials and Lam, and he says just getting his components and switching them from China to a different country will cost him as much as 15% more. The cost is the biggest thing. And the second thing, this just accelerates the decoupling between American companies and the Chinese manufacturing base.
Charlotte Gartenberg: That was WSJ China tech editor and reporter Liza Lin speaking with TNB producer Julie Chang. And that's it for Tech News Briefing. Today's show was produced by Jess Jupiter and Julie Chang with supervising producer, Katherine Milsop. I'm Charlotte Gartenberg for the Wall Street Journal. We'll be back this afternoon with TNB Tech Minute. Thanks for listening. |
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| To: Johnny Canuck who wrote (62526) | 2/19/2025 4:52:50 AM | | From: Johnny Canuck | | | | Analysts: Palantir Stock Could Be the Best Buy for the New DOGE Era in Washington
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When it comes to Palantir Technologies ( PLTR), the bears have been losing the tug-of-war game in the market quite badly. So much so in fact that you’ll have to pay the fattest premium among large-cap companies if you want to have a stake in PLTR. Almost everyone can agree that artificial intelligence (AI) is driving this rally, but no one knows how long it can last.
Palantir stock is up 62% in the year to date. Analysts expect earnings to grow 287.5% this fiscal year and then slow down to 6.45% in the next fiscal year.
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As such, PLTR has reached a forward price-earnings ratio of 216 times. Is the premium worth paying for the growth you’re getting? The market certainly thinks so, but some analysts are even more bullish and think that Palantir is far from its peak potential.
 www.barchart.comBofA Analysts Bullish on Palantir’s Alignment With DOGE’s MissionAnalysts at Bank of America slapped PLTR with the highest price target yet at $125. Analyst Mariana Perez Mora said “The company sees the world ripe for an AI and technology revolution. We see PLTR enabling and leading this revolution in both Commercial and Defense markets.” BofA’s price target points to less than 2% upside potential here after the stock’s latest rally.
CEO Alex Karp called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) a “revolution” that will expose inefficiencies and create opportunities for Palantir’s AI platforms. In general, he seems very upbeat about DOGE, and that’s for good reason. CTO Shyam Sankar noted during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call that DOGE will expose “sacred cows of the deep state.” He believes Palantir can provide effective solutions to government customers at a fraction of the cost.
Essentially, analysts and the company’s management both think that the fat DOGE will be trimming will create gaps that can be exploited by Palantir. President Donald Trump and DOGE head Elon Musk are both on board with advancing AI technology, so that is an added plus here.
What Other Analysts ThinkAnalysts are far from having a consensus on PLTR stock. Their price targets range from the aforementioned $125 down to $18. People aren’t used to seeing such valuations since the dot-com era, so it’s understandable why some analysts think the real fat is in PTLR’s valuations.
 www.barchart.comThe mean price target of $81.82 points to 31% downside risk from here. That said, you should keep in mind that most of these price targets have been trounced by PLTR as the company has continuously proven bears wrong, and even bulls have been surprised with the margins with which Palantir is beating analyst expectations quarter after quarter.
Whether or not this stellar execution will last for the long run is hard to say. In my opinion, PLTR’s fate in the near term is highly dependent on the fate of the broader AI rally. The longer investors keep piling into AI and tech stocks, the longer the PLTR rally will likely persist.
Even then, PLTR’s valuations are among the highest in the entire sector. Its price-earnings ratio is more expensive than 98% of software companies, and its price-sales ratio is more expensive than 98.4%. Among the big caps, PLTR is likely the most expensive stock you can buy.
Should You Buy PLTR Because of DOGE?The notion that DOGE will help PLTR is clear, and the bull case could see Palantir land several more big contracts to replace the federal agencies and projects being cleared out by DOGE.
If these contracts materialize and investors hold the premium they are paying now, this should translate into solid gains for Palantir stock in the coming quarters. Add better-than-expected commercial performance on top of that, and you have a dream scenario for PLTR stock.
Still, the primary concern would be the valuation here. A broader tech market correction would likely hit PLTR hard, regardless of any positive news related to DOGE contracts. I see no reason as to why investors will pay such multiples once the pendulum swings the other way. But until that happens, chasing the frenzy with the speculative portion of your portfolio is not a bad idea.
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| To: Johnny Canuck who wrote (62516) | 2/19/2025 8:02:42 AM | | From: E_K_S | | | | Yes still have a small position in CTBB. My avg cost is $16.30/share w/ a small GTC Buy at/below $14/share and a GTC Sell on a few high cost shares at $18.75/share.
I see I got my last payment 12/2/2024.
Basically hold a 50:50 in LUMN and their bond. Total position size for both small in the ROTH at 0.05% of the ROTH portfolio but now generating income. |
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Both Investors and Analysts Predict Big Gains For CyberArk Software
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- CyberArk Software (CYBR) has shown strong technical indicators, gaining 21.97% since a Trend Seeker buy signal on 12/31, and is above key moving averages.
- The company provides comprehensive identity security solutions, serving diverse industries globally, with strong revenue and earnings growth expected in the coming years.
- Analysts are bullish, with 27 strong buy ratings and price targets ranging from $303 to $500, reflecting confidence in CYBR's future performance.
- Despite its high P/E ratio, CYBR's impressive earnings and revenue growth, along with positive analyst sentiment, make it a compelling investment opportunity.
The Chart of the Day belongs to a leading global provider of identity security solutions CyberArk Software (CYBR) . I found the stock by using Barchart's powerful screening functions to find stocks with the highest technical buy signals, highest Weighted Alpha, superior current momentum and having a Trend Seeker buy signal then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts for consistent price appreciation. Since the Trend Seeker signaled a buy on 12/31 the stock gained 21.97%.
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CyberArk Software Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, develops, markets, and sells software-based identity security solutions and services in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. Its solutions include Privileged Access Manager, which offers risk-based credential security and session; Vendor Privileged Access Manager combines Privileged Access Manager and Remote Access to provide secure access to third-party vendors; Dynamic Privileged Access, a SaaS solution that provides just-in-time access to Linux Virtual Machines; Endpoint Privilege Manager, a SaaS solution that secures privileges on the endpoint; and Secure Desktop, a solution that protects access to endpoints. The company also provides workforce identity, which offers adaptive multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on, secure web sessions, workforce password management, application gateway, identity lifecycle management, and directory services; and customer identity services that provides authentication and authorization services, MFA, directory, and user management. In addition, it offers Secrets Manager Credential Providers to provide and manage the credentials used by third-party solutions; Conjur Enterprise and Conjur Cloud, which offers a secrets management solution for specific requirements; Secrets Hub, a centralized visibility and management platform; Cloud Security solutions; Identity Management solutions, including lifecycle management, identity flows, identity compliance, and directory services; and Secure Browser. The company serves financial services, manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, energy and utilities, transportation, retail, technology, and telecommunications industries; and government agencies. The company was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel.
Barchart's Opinion Trading systems are listed below. Please note that the Barchart Opinion indicators are updated live during the session every 20 minutes and can therefore change during the day as the market fluctuates. The indicator numbers shown below therefore may not match what you see live on the Barchart.com website when you read this report.
Barchart Technical Indicators:
- 100% technical buy signals
- 74.13+ Weighted Alpha
- 56.17% gain in the last year
- 1.15 - 60 month Beta
- Trend Seeker buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 15 new highs and up 15.47% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 72.42%
- Technical support level at $404.39
- Recently traded at $409.39 with 50 day moving average of $348.65
Fundamental Factors:
- Market Cap $18 billion
- P/E 3,766.45
- Revenue expected to grow 31.07% this year and another 19.90% next year
- Earnings estimated to increase 21.17% this year and an additional 29.69% next year
Analysts and Investor Sentiment -- I don't buy stocks because everyone else is buying but I do realize that if major firms and investors are dumping a stock it's hard to make money swimming against the tide:
- Wall Street analysts issued 27 strong buy, 2 buy and 1 hold opinion on the stock
- Their price targets between $303 and $500 with a consensus of $440 for another 8% gain
- Value Line gives the stock a below average rating with a price target of $433 for a 5% gain and comments:" CyberArk Software posted strong third quarter results. Revenues were in line with our expectations, with roughly 26% year over year growth. Earnings, however, were the real standout, with the company nearly reversing the net loss we expecting and instead posting profits of a similar magnitude. In response, we've markedly raised our earnings outlook going forward. "
- CFRAs MarketScope rates the stock a buy with a price target of $455 and comments:" We raise our target price to $455 from $395 on a P/E of 123x our 2025 EPS view, in line with its oneyear average. We increase our 2025 EPS estimate to $3.70 from $3.66 and begin our 2026 EPS forecast at $4.79. CYBR posted Q4 revenue of $314M, above consensus by $13M, and non-GAAP EPS of $0.80 beat by $0.08. "
- MorningStar thinks the stock is fairly valued and comments:" CyberArk's continued top-line strength is a testament to the firm's impressive identity security platform. We like the firm's pivot beyond its core privileged access management market toward workforce identity, machine identity, and identity governance."
- Of the 504 investors following the stock on Motley Fool 457 think the stock will beat the market and 47 think it won't
- 32,160 investors monitor the stock on Seeking Alpha
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