Rapid7 (NASDAQ:RPD) Updates Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Rapid7 (NASDAQ:RPD) issued an update on its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of 0.330-0.360 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 0.550. The company issued revenue guidance of $207.0 million-$209.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $214.4 million. Rapid7 also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 1.720-1.850 EPS.

Rapid7 Trading Up 0.7 %

NASDAQ:RPD traded up $0.24 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $35.06. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 234,057 shares, compared to its average volume of 615,892. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $39.39 and a 200-day moving average of $38.84. The company has a market capitalization of $2.22 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 55.64 and a beta of 0.96. Rapid7 has a fifty-two week low of $32.94 and a fifty-two week high of $61.79.

Rapid7 (NASDAQ:RPD) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 12th. The technology company reported $0.12 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.50 by ($0.38). Rapid7 had a net margin of 5.65% and a negative return on equity of 128.95%. On average, equities analysts anticipate that Rapid7 will post 0.98 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities analysts have recently weighed in on the company. Citigroup cut their price objective on Rapid7 from $46.00 to $44.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday. Raymond James cut their price target on shares of Rapid7 from $55.00 to $45.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday. Truist Financial lowered their price objective on shares of Rapid7 from $38.00 to $35.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday. Piper Sandler cut their price objective on shares of Rapid7 from $42.00 to $40.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, November 7th. Finally, StockNews.com cut Rapid7 from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday. Sixteen equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, Rapid7 presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $41.22.

Insider Activity at Rapid7

In other Rapid7 news, CEO Corey E. Thomas sold 100,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $39.38, for a total value of $3,938,000.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 431,469 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $16,991,249.22. This trade represents a 18.82 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. 2.60% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Rapid7 Company Profile

Rapid7, Inc provides cybersecurity solutions under the Rapid7, Nexpose, and Metasploit brand names. The company offers endpoint to cloud data collection and sharing applications, such as Rapid7 Insight Agent, a software-based agent that is used on assets across on-premises and cloud environments to centralize and monitor data on company's platform; Rapid7 Insight Network Sensor that analyzes raw end-to-end network traffic to increase visibility into user activity, pinpoint real threats, and investigations; Rapid7 Cloud Event Data Harvesting that offers visibility into changes made to cloud resources; and third-party integrations and ecosystem, as well as orchestration and automation solutions.