FY2027 Earnings Estimate for SAP Issued By Erste Group Bank

SAP SE (NYSE:SAP) – Research analysts at Erste Group Bank upped their FY2027 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for shares of SAP in a report released on Tuesday, May 12th. Erste Group Bank analyst H. Engel now expects that the software maker will post earnings of $9.85 per share for the year, up from their previous estimate of $9.83. The consensus estimate for SAP’s current full-year earnings is $8.34 per share.

Other equities analysts also recently issued research reports about the stock. Wall Street Zen downgraded shares of SAP from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Saturday. HSBC raised shares of SAP from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, April 22nd. Piper Sandler cut shares of SAP from an “overweight” rating to a “neutral” rating in a report on Tuesday, April 14th. Zacks Research lowered SAP from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, March 5th. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft restated a “buy” rating on shares of SAP in a report on Friday, January 30th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, eleven have assigned a Buy rating and seven have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, SAP currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $288.00.

SAP Price Performance

SAP stock opened at $178.72 on Wednesday. The company has a market cap of $219.56 billion, a P/E ratio of 24.15, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.96 and a beta of 1.11. SAP has a one year low of $158.58 and a one year high of $313.28. The business has a fifty day moving average of $174.78 and a two-hundred day moving average of $211.29. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.11, a quick ratio of 1.07 and a current ratio of 1.07.

SAP (NYSE:SAP) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Friday, February 27th. The software maker reported $1.99 earnings per share for the quarter. SAP had a return on equity of 17.31% and a net margin of 20.08%.The firm had revenue of $11.06 billion for the quarter.

SAP Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced an annual dividend, which was paid on Friday, May 15th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, May 5th were given a dividend of $2.9291 per share. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, May 5th. This is an increase from SAP’s previous annual dividend of $2.54. This represents a yield of 170.0%. SAP’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 28.92%.

Institutional Trading of SAP

Large investors have recently modified their holdings of the business. Abich Financial Wealth Management LLC purchased a new stake in SAP in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Copia Wealth Management purchased a new position in SAP during the third quarter worth $28,000. Sound Income Strategies LLC raised its holdings in shares of SAP by 109.4% in the fourth quarter. Sound Income Strategies LLC now owns 111 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $26,000 after acquiring an additional 58 shares during the last quarter. Bayban purchased a new stake in shares of SAP in the fourth quarter valued at $28,000. Finally, Guerra Advisors Inc acquired a new stake in shares of SAP during the third quarter valued at $31,000.

About SAP

SAP SE is a global enterprise software company headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. Founded in 1972 by five former IBM engineers, the company’s name is an acronym for Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung (Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing). SAP develops and sells software and services that help organizations manage business processes across finance, human resources, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain and customer relationships.

SAP’s product portfolio spans on?premises and cloud offerings, anchored by its enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions such as SAP S/4HANA and the SAP HANA in?memory database and platform.