Hillsdale Investment Management Inc. Buys 14,800 Shares of JFrog Ltd. $FROG

Hillsdale Investment Management Inc. lifted its stake in shares of JFrog Ltd. (NASDAQ:FROG) by 30.9% during the third quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 62,700 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 14,800 shares during the period. Hillsdale Investment Management Inc. owned 0.05% of JFrog worth $2,968,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the company. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its stake in JFrog by 2.5% in the third quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 9,143,178 shares of the company’s stock valued at $432,747,000 after purchasing an additional 224,513 shares in the last quarter. Wasatch Advisors LP grew its stake in shares of JFrog by 3.0% in the 2nd quarter. Wasatch Advisors LP now owns 2,557,603 shares of the company’s stock valued at $112,228,000 after buying an additional 74,153 shares during the period. JPMorgan Chase & Co. grew its stake in shares of JFrog by 3.0% in the 2nd quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 1,903,396 shares of the company’s stock valued at $83,521,000 after buying an additional 56,213 shares during the period. Ensign Peak Advisors Inc increased its position in JFrog by 15.4% in the 2nd quarter. Ensign Peak Advisors Inc now owns 1,504,950 shares of the company’s stock valued at $66,037,000 after buying an additional 200,995 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Bank of America Corp DE raised its stake in JFrog by 0.4% during the 2nd quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 1,437,352 shares of the company’s stock worth $63,071,000 after buying an additional 6,161 shares during the period. 85.02% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, CRO Tali Notman sold 13,357 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $64.80, for a total value of $865,533.60. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive directly owned 631,325 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $40,909,860. This represents a 2.07% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, Director Frederic Simon sold 80,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, January 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $59.51, for a total value of $4,760,800.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 3,660,786 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $217,853,374.86. The trade was a 2.14% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold a total of 407,814 shares of company stock worth $24,969,260 in the last ninety days. 14.10% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities research analysts have commented on FROG shares. Barclays raised their price objective on JFrog from $67.00 to $70.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Monday, January 12th. Piper Sandler cut their target price on JFrog from $70.00 to $65.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, February 13th. BTIG Research decreased their price target on shares of JFrog from $83.00 to $70.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, February 13th. Weiss Ratings restated a “sell (d-)” rating on shares of JFrog in a report on Thursday, January 22nd. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price objective on shares of JFrog from $55.00 to $65.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Friday, November 7th. Fifteen research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, three have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $65.94.

JFrog Trading Down 24.9%

Shares of NASDAQ:FROG opened at $37.75 on Monday. The stock has a market cap of $4.52 billion, a PE ratio of -60.89 and a beta of 1.13. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $57.79 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $53.88. JFrog Ltd. has a 1-year low of $27.00 and a 1-year high of $70.43.

JFrog (NASDAQ:FROG) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, February 12th. The company reported $0.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.19 by $0.03. JFrog had a negative net margin of 13.50% and a negative return on equity of 5.74%. The firm had revenue of $145.31 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $138.09 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.19 EPS. The business’s revenue was up 25.2% compared to the same quarter last year. JFrog has set its FY 2026 guidance at 0.880-0.920 EPS and its Q1 2026 guidance at 0.200-0.220 EPS. On average, sell-side analysts forecast that JFrog Ltd. will post -0.33 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

JFrog Profile

JFrog is a software company specializing in DevOps solutions designed to streamline the management, distribution and security of software binaries. Its core offering, JFrog Artifactory, serves as a universal artifact repository manager compatible with all major package formats, enabling development teams to store, version and share build artifacts across the software delivery pipeline. The company’s platform also includes tools for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), security scanning and release automation.

Among JFrog’s flagship products are JFrog Xray, a security and compliance scanning service that analyzes artifacts and dependencies for vulnerabilities; JFrog Pipelines, a CI/CD orchestration engine that automates build and release workflows; and JFrog Distribution, which accelerates the secure distribution of software releases to edge nodes and end users.