Certara (CERT) Stock Price, News & Analysis

11 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Certara in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" CERT shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CERT, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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11 brokers have issued 12 month price objectives for Certara's shares. Their CERT share price targets range from $15.50 to $24.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $20.06 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 15.0% from the stock's current price.
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Certara's stock was trading at $17.59 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, CERT shares have decreased by 0.9% and is now trading at $17.44.
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Certara saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 5,670,000 shares, an increase of 7.4% from the March 15th total of 5,280,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 550,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 10.3 days. Approximately 5.2% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 7th 2024.
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Certara will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, May 7th at 5:00 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Certara, Inc. (NASDAQ:CERT) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 29th. The company reported $0.05 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.09 by $0.04. The company had revenue of $88.01 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $86.80 million. Certara had a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 4.33% and a negative net margin of 15.62%.

ETFs with the largest weight of Certara (NASDAQ:CERT) stock in their portfolio include MFAM Small-Cap Growth ETF (MFMS), Motley Fool Small-Cap Growth ETF (TMFS), Invesco S&P SmallCap Health Care ETF (PSCH), Pacer US Large Cap Cash Cows Growth Leaders ETF (COWG), BlackRock Future Innovators ETF (BFTR), Janus Henderson US Sustainable Equity ETF (SSPX), Syntax Stratified SmallCap ETF (SSLY) and iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF (IHF).

Certara updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 29th. The company provided EPS guidance of 0.410-0.460 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 0.480. The company issued revenue guidance of $385.0 million-$400.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $364.0 million.

Certara (CERT) raised $500 million in an initial public offering on Friday, December 11th 2020. The company issued 24,400,000 shares at a price of $19.00-$22.00 per share. Jefferies, Morgan Stanley, BofA Securities, Credit Suisse, Barclays and William Blair acted as the underwriters for the IPO.

Certara's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include First Hawaiian Bank (0.02%). Insiders that own company stock include Avatar Parent LP Eqt, Craig R Rayner, Eran Broshy, James E Cashman III, Jieun W Choe, Justin Edge, Leif E Pedersen, Mason P Slaine, Matthew M Walsh, Michael Andrew Schemick, Patrick F Smith, Richard M Traynor, Robert Aspbury, Stephen M Mclean and William F Feehery.
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Shares of CERT stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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