In the last trading session, 1.06 million Verint Systems, Inc (NASDAQ:VRNT) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.47. With the company’s per share price at $21.6 changed hands at $0.79 or 3.80% during last session, the market valuation stood at $1.30B. VRNT’s last price was a discount, traded about -72.73% off its 52-week high of $37.31. The share price had its 52-week low at $14.15, which suggests the last value was 34.49% up since then. When we look at Verint Systems, Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.36 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.49 million.
Analysts gave the Verint Systems, Inc (VRNT) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.80. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 8 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended VRNT as a Hold, 7 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Verint Systems, Inc (NASDAQ:VRNT) trade information
Instantly VRNT was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 7.62%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -35.87%, with the 5-day performance at 7.62% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Verint Systems, Inc (NASDAQ:VRNT) is 31.47% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 3.89 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.73 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 29, meaning bulls need an upside of 25.52% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, VRNT’s forecast low is 23 with 30 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -38.89% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -6.48% for it to hit the projected low.
Verint Systems, Inc (VRNT) estimates and forecasts
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 19.45%. The 2025 estimates are for Verint Systems, Inc earnings to increase by 11.74%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 10.60% per year.
Verint Systems, Inc (NASDAQ:VRNT)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 1.31% of Verint Systems, Inc shares while 112.13% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 113.62%. There are 112.13% institutions holding the Verint Systems, Inc stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 12.2416% of the shares, roughly 7.57 million VRNT shares worth $243.85 million.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 9.594% or 5.94 million shares worth $191.11 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were UNDISCOVERED MANAGERS Fd.S-Undiscovered Managers Behavioral Value Fd. and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund. With 2.82 shares estimated at $60.99 million under it, the former controlled 4.69% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 3.26% of the shares, roughly 1.96 shares worth around $42.31 million.
