Capital One Financial Weighs in on HubSpot Q1 Earnings

HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) – Capital One Financial issued their Q1 2025 earnings estimates for shares of HubSpot in a research report issued on Wednesday, January 15th. Capital One Financial analyst C. Murphy expects that the software maker will post earnings per share of ($0.05) for the quarter. The consensus estimate for HubSpot’s current full-year earnings is $0.42 per share. Capital One Financial also issued estimates for HubSpot’s Q2 2025 earnings at $0.28 EPS, Q3 2025 earnings at $0.33 EPS, Q4 2025 earnings at $0.40 EPS and FY2025 earnings at $0.95 EPS.

HUBS has been the subject of a number of other reports. Truist Financial restated a “buy” rating and set a $750.00 price target (up from $600.00) on shares of HubSpot in a research note on Friday, November 8th. Barclays boosted their target price on shares of HubSpot from $500.00 to $650.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Friday, November 8th. Mizuho increased their price target on shares of HubSpot from $725.00 to $775.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, December 13th. The Goldman Sachs Group boosted their price objective on shares of HubSpot from $626.00 to $690.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 7th. Finally, Canaccord Genuity Group raised their target price on HubSpot from $600.00 to $710.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, November 7th. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, nineteen have given a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $719.30.

HubSpot Trading Up 1.3 %

Shares of HUBS opened at $718.34 on Friday. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $711.05 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $584.33. HubSpot has a 1-year low of $434.84 and a 1-year high of $762.47.

HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, November 6th. The software maker reported $2.18 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.91 by $0.27. HubSpot had a negative return on equity of 1.16% and a negative net margin of 0.56%. The business had revenue of $669.72 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $646.97 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned ($0.04) earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 20.1% compared to the same quarter last year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of HUBS. J.W. Cole Advisors Inc. bought a new position in HubSpot during the second quarter valued at $239,000. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP lifted its stake in shares of HubSpot by 8.6% in the 2nd quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 77,292 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $45,586,000 after purchasing an additional 6,138 shares during the last quarter. Meiji Yasuda Asset Management Co Ltd. boosted its holdings in shares of HubSpot by 12.2% in the 2nd quarter. Meiji Yasuda Asset Management Co Ltd. now owns 752 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $444,000 after purchasing an additional 82 shares during the period. Amalgamated Bank increased its position in shares of HubSpot by 3.6% during the 2nd quarter. Amalgamated Bank now owns 3,303 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $1,948,000 after purchasing an additional 114 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC increased its position in shares of HubSpot by 12.9% during the 2nd quarter. Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC now owns 5,413 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $3,193,000 after purchasing an additional 620 shares during the last quarter. 90.39% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Insider Buying and Selling at HubSpot

In other news, insider Brian Halligan sold 8,500 shares of HubSpot stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, November 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $661.59, for a total value of $5,623,515.00. Following the sale, the insider now directly owns 513,698 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $339,857,459.82. The trade was a 1.63 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, CFO Kathryn Bueker sold 1,796 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, January 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $701.59, for a total value of $1,260,055.64. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer now directly owns 38,560 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $27,053,310.40. The trade was a 4.45 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders have sold 78,066 shares of company stock worth $54,900,427. Insiders own 4.50% of the company’s stock.

About HubSpot

HubSpot, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform for businesses in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company's CRM platform includes Marketing Hub, a toolset for marketing automation and email, social media, SEO, and reporting and analytics; Sales Hub offers email templates and tracking, conversations and live chat, meeting and call scheduling, lead and website visit alerts, lead scoring, sales automation, pipeline management, quoting, forecasting, and reporting; Service Hub, a service software designed to help businesses manage, respond, and connect with customers; and Content Management Systems Hub enables businesses to create new and edit existing web content.