Bottomline Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:EPAY) currently has an Average Broker Rating of 2.63. This number is based on the 8 sell-side firms polled by Zacks. The ABR rank within the industry stands at 69. Analysts on a consensus basis are expecting that the stock will reach $27 within the year. The ABR is provided by Zacks which simplfies analyst ratings into an integer based number. They use a one to five scale where they translate brokerage firm Buy/Sell/Hold recommendations into an average broker rating. A low number in the 1-2 range typically indicates a Buy, 3 represents a Hold and 4-5 represents a consensus Sell rating.
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Research analysts are predicting that Bottomline Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:EPAY) will report earnings of $0.14 per share when the firm issues their next quarterly report. This is the consensus earnings per share number according to data from Zack’s Research.
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Most recently Bottomline Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:EPAY) posted quarterly earnings of $0.09 which compared to the sell-side estimates of 0.14. The stock’s 12-month trailing earnings per share stands at $0.36. Shares have moved $-1.41 over the past month and more recently, $1.46 over the past week heading into the earnings announcement. There are 1 analyst projections that were taken into consideration from respected brokerage firms.
Bottomline Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:EPAY) closed the last session at $25.78 and sees an average of 317509.91 shares trade hands in each session. The 52-week low of the stock stands at $18.8 while the current level stands at 85.23% of the 52-week High-Low range. Looking further out we can see that the stock has moved 18.58% over the past 12 weeks and 3.04% year to date.
2 analysts rate Bottomline Technologies, Inc. a Buy or Strong Buy, which is 25% of all the analyst ratings.
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