Manhattan Associates
What analysts say:
- Buy, sell, or hold? Analysts generally think investors should hang on to Manhattan Associates, with half rating the stock a hold. Analysts don't like Manhattan Associates as much as competitor American Software overall.
- Revenue forecasts: On average, analysts predict $83.2 million in revenue this quarter. That would represent a rise of 7.1% from the year-ago quarter.
- Wall Street earnings expectations: The average analyst estimate is earnings of 39 cents per share.
What our community says:
CAPS All Stars are solidly backing the stock with 83.3% assigning it an "outperform" rating. The majority of the Fools are in agreement with the All Stars; 70.3% give it an "outperform" rating. Fools are gung-ho about Manhattan Associates, though the message boards have been quiet lately with only 15 posts in the past 30 days. Manhattan Associates has a CAPS rating of zero out of five stars.
Management:
Manhattan Associates' income has fallen year over year by an average of more than fivefold. A year-over-year revenue decrease last quarter snaps a streak of three consecutive quarters of revenue increases. The company's gross margin shrank by 3.8 percentage points in the last quarter. Revenue fell 3% while cost of sales rose 5.9% to $32.5 million from a year earlier.
Quarter | Q1 | Q4 | Q3 | Q2 |
Gross Margin | 54.7% | 55% | 55.1% | 57.9% |
Operating Margin | 10.5% | 12.3% | 13% | 15.5% |
Net Margin | 10% | 9% | 8.4% | 10.5% |
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