EP Wealth Advisors LLC Grows Holdings in ServiceNow, Inc. (NYSE:NOW)

EP Wealth Advisors LLC lifted its position in shares of ServiceNow, Inc. (NYSE:NOWFree Report) by 53.1% in the third quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 3,377 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock after buying an additional 1,171 shares during the quarter. EP Wealth Advisors LLC’s holdings in ServiceNow were worth $3,020,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the company. Catalyst Financial Partners LLC grew its stake in ServiceNow by 1.0% in the 3rd quarter. Catalyst Financial Partners LLC now owns 1,146 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $1,025,000 after acquiring an additional 11 shares during the period. First Affirmative Financial Network grew its position in shares of ServiceNow by 1.4% in the third quarter. First Affirmative Financial Network now owns 895 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock valued at $801,000 after purchasing an additional 12 shares during the period. Capital Advisors Ltd. LLC increased its stake in ServiceNow by 14.6% in the third quarter. Capital Advisors Ltd. LLC now owns 94 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock valued at $84,000 after purchasing an additional 12 shares during the last quarter. BluePointe Capital Management LLC lifted its position in ServiceNow by 0.6% during the third quarter. BluePointe Capital Management LLC now owns 2,014 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $1,801,000 after buying an additional 12 shares during the period. Finally, Morling Financial Advisors LLC boosted its stake in ServiceNow by 2.5% in the 2nd quarter. Morling Financial Advisors LLC now owns 527 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock worth $415,000 after buying an additional 13 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 87.18% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. Piper Sandler raised their target price on shares of ServiceNow from $850.00 to $1,000.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 24th. Sanford C. Bernstein lifted their price target on shares of ServiceNow from $906.00 to $913.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, October 24th. Citigroup boosted their price objective on shares of ServiceNow from $1,068.00 to $1,071.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, October 25th. TD Cowen increased their target price on ServiceNow from $900.00 to $1,000.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, October 21st. Finally, KeyCorp boosted their price target on ServiceNow from $1,020.00 to $1,040.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 24th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have given a hold rating, twenty-five have assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $1,011.26.

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Insider Transactions at ServiceNow

In other ServiceNow news, CEO William R. Mcdermott sold 12,271 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, November 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $997.67, for a total value of $12,242,408.57. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 2,595 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $2,588,953.65. This trade represents a 82.54 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Also, Director Paul Edward Chamberlain sold 300 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, November 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $1,047.95, for a total transaction of $314,385.00. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 10,467 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $10,968,892.65. This trade represents a 2.79 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last three months, insiders have sold 20,629 shares of company stock worth $20,861,626. 0.25% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

ServiceNow Stock Performance

Shares of ServiceNow stock opened at $1,124.34 on Monday. The firm has a market cap of $231.61 billion, a PE ratio of 174.86, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 6.45 and a beta of 0.99. ServiceNow, Inc. has a 1 year low of $637.99 and a 1 year high of $1,137.00. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $982.51 and its 200-day simple moving average is $858.99. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16, a quick ratio of 1.13 and a current ratio of 1.13.

ServiceNow (NYSE:NOWGet Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October 23rd. The information technology services provider reported $3.72 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.46 by $0.26. The business had revenue of $2.80 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.75 billion. ServiceNow had a return on equity of 16.03% and a net margin of 12.77%. The business’s revenue was up 22.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $1.21 EPS. Equities analysts forecast that ServiceNow, Inc. will post 7.07 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

ServiceNow Company Profile

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ServiceNow, Inc provides end to-end intelligent workflow automation platform solutions for digital businesses in the North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates the Now platform for end-to-end digital transformation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation, process mining, performance analytics, and collaboration and development tools.

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