Research Analysts Offer Predictions for BOX FY2025 Earnings

Box, Inc. (NYSE:BOX) – Equities research analysts at DA Davidson issued their FY2025 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for BOX in a research report issued to clients and investors on Wednesday, December 18th. DA Davidson analyst L. Schreiner forecasts that the software maker will earn $0.26 per share for the year. DA Davidson currently has a “Buy” rating and a $45.00 target price on the stock. The consensus estimate for BOX’s current full-year earnings is $0.27 per share. DA Davidson also issued estimates for BOX’s Q4 2025 earnings at $0.05 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $0.34 EPS.

Several other equities analysts have also weighed in on the stock. StockNews.com raised shares of BOX from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Friday, December 13th. Royal Bank of Canada restated an “underperform” rating and issued a $21.00 target price on shares of BOX in a research report on Wednesday, December 4th. William Blair reiterated an “outperform” rating on shares of BOX in a report on Thursday, November 14th. UBS Group lifted their price target on shares of BOX from $34.00 to $42.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, December 4th. Finally, Citigroup upped their price objective on shares of BOX from $34.00 to $40.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, December 4th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have issued a hold rating, eight have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $35.89.

BOX Stock Down 0.1 %

NYSE BOX opened at $32.03 on Friday. BOX has a 52 week low of $24.28 and a 52 week high of $35.74. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $33.08 and its 200-day simple moving average is $30.32. The firm has a market cap of $4.60 billion, a PE ratio of 40.04 and a beta of 0.86.

Insider Activity at BOX

In related news, CFO Dylan C. Smith sold 13,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, October 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $32.52, for a total transaction of $422,760.00. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer now owns 1,474,509 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $47,951,032.68. This trade represents a 0.87 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. Also, VP Eli Berkovitch sold 4,792 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, December 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $32.46, for a total transaction of $155,548.32. Following the completion of the transaction, the vice president now directly owns 140,172 shares in the company, valued at $4,549,983.12. This represents a 3.31 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 62,178 shares of company stock valued at $2,046,898 over the last three months. 4.10% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Earnest Partners LLC lifted its holdings in BOX by 8.5% in the 2nd quarter. Earnest Partners LLC now owns 7,960,924 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $210,487,000 after purchasing an additional 620,450 shares in the last quarter. State Street Corp raised its holdings in shares of BOX by 1.2% in the 3rd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 5,623,032 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $184,042,000 after purchasing an additional 69,107 shares during the period. Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of BOX by 0.4% in the 3rd quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 3,249,823 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $106,387,000 after purchasing an additional 13,028 shares in the last quarter. Sei Investments Co. grew its holdings in shares of BOX by 4.2% during the 2nd quarter. Sei Investments Co. now owns 3,078,857 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $81,405,000 after purchasing an additional 125,435 shares during the period. Finally, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP grew its holdings in shares of BOX by 9.8% during the 2nd quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 2,564,668 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $67,809,000 after purchasing an additional 229,314 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 86.74% of the company’s stock.

About BOX

Box, Inc provides a cloud content management platform that enables organizations of various sizes to manage and share their content from anywhere on any device. The company's Software-as-a-Service platform enables users to work with their content as they need from secure external collaboration and sharing, workspaces and portals, e-signature processes, and content workflows improving employee productivity and accelerating business processes.