Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY) Stock Price, News & Analysis

13 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Jack Henry & Associates in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" JKHY shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in JKHY, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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13 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Jack Henry & Associates' shares. Their JKHY share price targets range from $140.00 to $186.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $170.92 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.8%.
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Jack Henry & Associates' stock was trading at $163.41 at the start of the year. Since then, JKHY shares have increased by 6.5% and is now trading at $174.05.
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Jack Henry & Associates saw a drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,010,000 shares, a drop of 20.2% from the December 31st total of 2,520,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 545,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.7 days. Currently, 2.8% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 7th 2024.
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Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ:JKHY) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 7th. The technology company reported $1.26 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.14 by $0.12. The technology company had revenue of $545.70 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $540.34 million. Jack Henry & Associates had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 23.10% and a net margin of 17.26%. The business's revenue was up 8.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.10 EPS.
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Jack Henry & Associates announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, November 14th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.52 per share on Friday, December 22nd. This represents a $2.08 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.20%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 30th.
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Jack Henry & Associates (NASDAQ:JKHY) pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.27%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 33 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 40.70%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, JKHY will have a dividend payout ratio of 37.08% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Jack Henry & Associates updated its FY24 earnings guidance on Tuesday, February, 6th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $5.09 to $5.13 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $5.02. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.215 billion to $2.228 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.22 billion.

208 employees have rated Jack Henry & Associates Chief Executive Officer David Foss on Glassdoor.com. David Foss has an approval rating of 84% among the company's employees.

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Jack Henry & Associates' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Handelsbanken Fonder AB (1.05%), Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co. Ltd. (0.82%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.81%), Raymond James & Associates (0.76%), Nordea Investment Management AB (0.70%) and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.65%). Insiders that own company stock include David B Foss, Laura G Kelly, Stacey E Zengel, Stacey E Zengel, Thomas A Wimsett and Thomas Hampton Jr Wilson.
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