Five9 (NASDAQ:FIVN) Announces Quarterly Earnings Results, Misses Expectations By $0.44 EPS

Five9 (NASDAQ:FIVN) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday. The software maker reported $0.26 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.70 by ($0.44), Zacks reports. Five9 had a negative return on equity of 1.53% and a negative net margin of 3.66%. Five9 updated its FY 2025 guidance to 2.580-2.620 EPS and its Q1 2025 guidance to 0.470-0.490 EPS.

Five9 Trading Down 0.3 %

FIVN stock traded down $0.13 on Thursday, hitting $41.69. 3,612,439 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,215,360. Five9 has a twelve month low of $26.60 and a twelve month high of $71.43. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.32, a current ratio of 1.85 and a quick ratio of 1.85. The business’s fifty day moving average is $40.60 and its two-hundred day moving average is $35.85. The stock has a market capitalization of $3.14 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -83.38, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 9.60 and a beta of 0.93.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Five9 news, CAO Leena Mansharamani sold 1,346 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, December 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $41.33, for a total transaction of $55,630.18. Following the completion of the sale, the chief accounting officer now directly owns 35,526 shares in the company, valued at $1,468,289.58. The trade was a 3.65 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, CEO Michael Burkland sold 12,594 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, December 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $41.40, for a total transaction of $521,391.60. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 240,894 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $9,973,011.60. This represents a 4.97 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 29,004 shares of company stock valued at $1,209,279. Insiders own 1.80% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several brokerages have issued reports on FIVN. Wells Fargo & Company downgraded shares of Five9 from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and lowered their price objective for the stock from $55.00 to $40.00 in a research report on Tuesday, November 12th. Piper Sandler raised their price objective on shares of Five9 from $35.00 to $46.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Friday, November 8th. DA Davidson raised their price objective on shares of Five9 from $40.00 to $45.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, November 8th. Robert W. Baird lifted their target price on shares of Five9 from $40.00 to $43.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Monday, November 11th. Finally, Truist Financial reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $65.00 target price on shares of Five9 in a report on Tuesday, December 17th. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and fourteen have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $57.50.

Five9 Company Profile

Five9, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides intelligent cloud software for contact centers in the United States, India, and internationally. It offers a virtual contact center cloud platform that delivers a suite of applications, which enables the breadth of contact center-related customer service, sales, and marketing functions.